(quoted post by Brre)

5 messages BitcoinTalk Brre, Quantumplation, knightmb, Gavin Andresen, Satoshi Nakamoto July 29, 2010 — July 29, 2010
Brre July 29, 2010 Source · Permalink

I did a transaction about 2 hours ago and it is staying at 0/unconfirmed, the recipient has no credit showing or even an unconfirmed line… The coins seems to disapeared in the void… Should I wait is this just a transaction that is going to take exceptionally long?

Brre: Your client will relentlessly broadcast that transaction into infinity until it’s accepted. It’s VERY persistent.

A block just probably hasn’t been solved in two hours. The difficulty’s up there, I know that.

knightmb July 29, 2010 Source · Permalink

Yeah, a block is being solved every 10 minutes or less, it shouldn’t take 2 hours unless the client has somehow lost connection to the rest of the network.

Quote from: Brre on July 29, 2010, 11:20:33 AM

I did a transaction about 2 hours ago and it is staying at 0/unconfirmed, the recipient has no credit showing or even an unconfirmed line… The coins seems to disapeared in the void… Should I wait is this just a transaction that is going to take exceptionally long?

Are you still downloading the block chain? If you don’t already have all 70,000+ blocks in the block chain, then you transaction won’t show up as confirmed until you catch up.

If the transaction didn’t go out immediately at first, like if you weren’t connected at the time, it may take up to 2 hours to resend it.  Long term, it does keep relentlessly sending it.

I’ll shorten that length of time in a future version.

You do need to have downloaded the complete block chain (currently 71040 blocks) before you’ll see any confirms.  Same with the recipient.