First, your transaction goes into the «
unconfirmed transactions pool,» a list of all the pending Bitcoin transactions.
With the number of bitcoin transactions increasing as bitcoin's popularity grows, transactions take longer as
the unconfirmed transactions pool increases.
Not exact matches
Key statistics gathered by Statoshi http://statoshi.info/ for the past few months show the
pool of
unconfirmed transactions has held relatively steady at about 10,000
transactions — a significant decrease from over 75,000
unconfirmed transactions during «the stress test» performed in September 2015.
Key statistics gathered by Statoshi for the past few months show the
pool of
unconfirmed transactions has held relatively steady at about 10,000
transactions — a significant decrease from over 75,000
unconfirmed transactions during «the stress test» performed in September 2015.
For instance four days ago the mining
pool Viabtc processed an 8 MB block that confirmed every
transaction that was
unconfirmed in one fell swoop.
When you send a
transaction with too low fees, it stays in the
unconfirmed pool of most full nodes until it either expires or until a miner picks it up and confirms in a block.
In recent months, the
pool of
unconfirmed transactions on the bitcoin network has been growing to astounding levels, often exceeding 400,000
transactions.