Tx Doctor / Bitcoin troubleshooting

Why is my Bitcoin transaction stuck?

Bitcoin transactions do not fail on chain the way smart-contract chains do. Once a transaction is mined it is final — the only failure modes are: it never landed, it is sitting in the mempool because the fee rate is too low, or it was replaced by an RBF re-send.

Diagnose my transaction

Transaction stuck (unconfirmed)

BTC · fees — The transaction reached the mempool but its fee rate is below what miners are packing right now, so it sits unconfirmed until the fee market drops or…

Transaction dropped from the mempool

BTC · mempool — No node is holding this transaction anymore. It either never propagated, was evicted for paying below the minimum relay fee, or was removed after an…

Replaced by an RBF transaction

BTC · RBF — The wallet re-signed the transaction with a higher fee (Replace-By-Fee). The original txid disappears from the mempool and only the replacement can…