Complaints from Bitcoin Users

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Unconfirmed Transaction

"It takes 2 days. Should I wait more? Or I lost my bitcoin?

https://blockchain.info/tx/10e731d6d25e ... 6d491eb527" - vldzp

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Complaints from users, Day 10 (24/06/2016):

Meanwhile larger blocks being in use today

"would mean the transaction I sent - nine hours ago - would be confirmed by now. It isn't. Yaaaay." - Devar0

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Why does the price keep going up and down?

"It scares me" - 24811812513198111524

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Slow Confirmations?

"I sent some bitcoin earlier today (9:57am) with a miner fee of .12mBTC (the normal amount according to mycelium) and I still have 0 confirmations. How long will it take?" - easyxtarget

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Three hours wait for a confirmation

"plus 3 more unconfirmed because of unconfirmed parents - what is wrong?" - rezzme

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BTC stuck in limbo

"Tried to buy on steam (bitpay) and stuff kinda went through but obviously, no confirmations." - FormCore

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Why is it it's still "Unconfirmed Transaction"?

"It's been 3 and a half hours already with this transaction and it's still unconfirmed" - technicalperson

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Complaints from users, Day 11 (25/06/2016):

Almost 48 hours and no confirmation yet. Are my bitcoins lost forever?

"I've sent a tx 2 days ago and it STILL hasn't been confirmed. What happens in this scenario? Do my bitcoins go back to my wallet? Can't I rebroadcast the transaction?" - Some1CP

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bitcoin unconfirmed for over 48 hours.

"i have sent a payment to an address, but its still unconfirmed after 48hours. it even fell off blockchain.info a4566b0d29dc391a65b28803d73294a34569a79a4d42e91ae8db9b864efdb489" - the_swiss_guy

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In the philippines 10 cents is 4.6 pesos, the average low end salary is 1500 pesos per week.

"That means just 20 transactions per week is 6-7% of your weekly salary. Fees are too high to sustain adoption of 5 billion underbanked working poor around the world." - slvbtc

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Money

"of the future here folks." - shazvaz

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God

"what a nightmare" - Reddit_My_Life_Away

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Complaints from users, Day 12 & 13 (27/06/2016):

mSigna unsent transaction (lost funds?)

"I am having a problem with my first transaction with Msigna and am looking for help. I have been unable to find an answer by searching the internet so I am writing this post. I sent a transaction to an address I wish to send funds to but the confirmation status is “unsent” after several hours of waiting." - waybackwhen007

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This is by far

"the worst user experience I've ever seen." - Annapurna317

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We can't serve the users

"that we already have." - redlightsaber

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The bandwidth cap on bitcoin

"is a protocol issue." - VW0WV

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Except this limitation isn't a technical one

"It's an artificial and randomone, kept in place for political purposes." - redlightsaber

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No! We don't fix the problem!

"We blame the wallet software and describe tricky ways to bypass the problem instead! " - BitttBurger

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It doesnt matter how much in fees people pay,

"block size is still artificially constrained to 1 Mb" - ztsmart

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It doesn't matter if more and more wallet devs try to fix the problem with higher fees and smart wallets.

"If everyone is doing the same thing nothing is solved. We just end up back where we started. Just unconfirmed transactions with even higher and higher fees." - Andaloons

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A $6 fee to send money?

"I think I will use another method." - Vintagesysadmin

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I think expanding the block size is a pretty good solution.

"Miners can actually make more money because Bitcoin will grow and more fees will be paid." - Vintagesysadmin

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replace-by-fee is bullshit.

"I've spent from 0.001 to 0.002 on multiple transactions and It has never sped up a transaction for me using bitcoin wallet on android. I repeat it has never worked as advertised for me. Using it is flushing money down the toilet.

I Actually had multiple transactions on different wallets and one of them I didn't use replace by fee and and it confirmed about the same time as the replace by fee transactions. It is a fucking rip off." - so_obvius

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'Greg Maxwell' or 'Gregory Maxwell' is the virtual name of a group of employees of blockstream who shill for a small block size.

"Blockstream are trying to develop and build a product which layers over the bitcoin protocol which will act as a secondary payment layer for the bitcoin protocol and thus use the bitcoin protocol as a settlement layer. They have been working on various ideas for some time to try to make this work. Unfortunately none of their idea's have come to fruition because they are fundamentally trying to re-invent the solution for the double-spend problem which bitcoin has already , so elegantly solved. Until they realize this , their futile actions will continue , and they will continue to hobble the entire system until either an Alt-coin supersedes bitcoin or the community removes them from the ecosystem. The third option is for them to admit they made a mistake and move forward by increasing the block size thus allowing bitcoin to grow , they may then work toward better scaling solutions in the mid to long term - thus making blockstream viable." - the-goat-herder

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They've effectively stalled on chain scaling and recently got another $55M for a total of about $75 million to continue doing exactly what they are doing.

"The new investment is not triggered by failure but success of goals.

We're all in danger of losing control of Bitcoin to a centralized authority." - Adrian-X

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Complaints from users, Day 14 (28/06/2016):

I've been waiting for a transaction to confirm for days.

"I don't control the originating wallet/key." - fimp

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I won't support any hardfork for blocksize that doesn't scale indefinitely out into the future,

"as it would simply guarantee we need another HF later for the exact same issue. No more shitty band-aid solutions, like Segwit." - fat_tony555

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Small block supporters have resorted to censorship in an attempt to preserve Bitcoin's censorship resistance.

"The irony seems to be completely lost on them. They are also completely wrong about small blocks helping preserve censorship resistance. Bigger blocks help improve censorship resistance." - MemoryDealers

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It gets me every time that they cannot see how alienating they are.

"If this had been going on when I first got into Bitcoin years ago, I woulda taken one look at the whole ecosystem, been thoroughly confused, and possibly run the other way." - pagex

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NullC explains Cores position;

"bigger blocks creates a Bitcoin in which blockstream cannot survive in the long run and Core doesn't write software to bring it about." - timetraveller57