BTC already at ~133,500 unconfirmed transactions and growing ...

in #cryptocurrency7 years ago (edited)

Since reading about BCH currently having more hashing power than the BTC chain and having experienced super slow confirmation times myself, I started to look at the unconfirmed transactions stats. 15 mins ago they were at 130,000 and now they're already at around 133,500.

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(Screenshot already older showing a little bit less unconfirmed transactions)

If this were web development some guy on pager duty should be called immediately to fix this "bug" in production – if this continues it won't be even possible to transfer any BTC anywhere, not even to exchanges or shapeshift to get rid of it and buy an alternative crypto currency.

Ok this is not web development but I believe more and more there needs to be done something rather sooner than later for scaling BTC in an intelligent way or else even the "digital gold" will be super hard to move around.

Awaiting Lightning Network...

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160,000 unconfirmed transactions already, so 30,000 overnight...

175,000 ... crazy!