Don't panic because of not confirmed bitcoins transactions

Some people are panicking because their bitcoin transactions aren't confirmed as fast as usuals. There's a chain split going on, miners are partially activating the new feature.

Also see /r/Bitcoin.

So, my understanding is that confirmations can currently take longer than usual. If possible you should probably avoid doing bitcoin transactions at all for the next two weeks until this issue has been resolved.


"It's a rather awful situation," said Harding. "Unfortunately the only advice we can give to users is in the notice, which is to stop using Bitcoin on July 31st until we know whether or not the UASF succeeded."

To further complicate matters, there's another such proposal known as "SegWit2" planned for November.

Bitcoin.org is warning of the possibility of price fluctuations. It advises Bitcoin users to:


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