number of blocks that are dependent on a given transaction. This includes the block containing that transaction and all blocks after it in the blockchain. The more confirmations a transaction has, the more likely is it that it will remain in the blockchain permanently.
Questions tagged [transaction-confirmation]
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What is the purpose of locked balance?
Funds get blocked for a few blocks while sending/getting a transaction.
What is the purpose of it and how does it work?
ant Bldel
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How to check the number of confirmations for a transaction?
I assume XMR should have confirmations similar to BTC, so how to check it? I am asking because when I transfer monero to poloniex using monero-wallet-cli, poloniex kept me waiting for a while. When it was Bitcoin, I usually check the confirmations…
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Transaction: 6 hours and 0 confirmations
Is there others than me experiencing a slow XMR chain?
It has been 6 hours and 0 confirmations.
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Will Monero have unconfirmed transactions problems like bitcoin?
Recently there has been many unconfirmed transactions with bitcoin resulting in transactions taking a lot of time to process (12 hours+). I was wondering if Monero would have the same problem in the future if there were many transactions? Would it…
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Received monero, how many confirmations do I need to wait before fully confirmed?
Why do we need to wait for such a long time when receiving monero? I thought it was 2 minutes only, but it seems that is not the case and I have to wait still a good 5+ minutes for a transaction to confirm.
Patoshi パトシ
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How do you confirm payment via a JSON RPC call?
I know you can use e.g. monero-wallet.cli to confirm payment via a payment ID, but how do you do this with a JSON call to the daemon?
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When is it safe to confirm the transaction?
I am trying to make a monero payment receiving platform and I've found out that it takes about 30-40 minutes for the transaction's height to be 10, which then will the payment be released to me.
For small payments like >USD 10, I think i will accept…
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Transaction stuck pending
I have a few transactions that are stuck in the pending status (for about 2 days now).
My unlocked balance is near 0, so I cannot transfer any XMR. How can I solve these stuck transactions? What is the reason?
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