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I'm new in the Bitcoin World. Today I did my second transaction for just 0.005 BTC but 2 hours after, it's unconfirmed yet. The transaction is in the block 320385 and it is orphaned. I saw the statistics for orphaned block in blockchain.info and today are 10 orphaned blocks and this is a high value according the graphic.
My cuestion is:
1.- How much time will my transaction to be included in other block?.
2.- What happened on september 13, 2014?, Why are there 10 orphaned blocks?
Thanks
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Today I did my second transaction for just 0.005 BTC but 2 hours after, it's unconfirmed yet. The transaction is in the block 320385 and it is orphaned.
Is it in a block, or is it unconfirmed?
block 320385
Which block 320385? This one or this one?
today are 10 orphaned blocks and this is a high value according the graphic.
Huh, that's pretty odd. Screenshot for posterity:
It's unusual for blockchain.info to be wrong, but it definitely is in this case. This is the best chain that my client can find:
2014-09-13 01:59:04.460 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000000652d48e212a9fdb16ce57d7097b76200a2fe5e9cd643fe height=320406 log2_work=80.639033 tx=46574398 date=2014-09-13 01:56:16 progress=0.999993
The chain that blockchain.info thinks is invalid appears valid to my client. They'll probably have it sorted out in a few hours.
Can exists two blocks with the same number? I think no, both links point to the same block: 320385 (orphaned block) – Miguel – 2014-09-13T02:25:34.330
3 hours and 30 mins and the tx is unconfirmed yet. – Miguel – 2014-09-13T02:29:35.530
Now the orphaned blocks rise up to 27. Is this normal? – Miguel – 2014-09-13T03:08:39.543
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Can exists two blocks with the same numberYes. – Nick ODell – 2014-09-13T03:16:41.857Correction: 'It's NOT unusual for blockchain.info to be wrong'. It's been horrible for months at least. – Jannes – 2014-09-13T03:34:40.287
@Jannes If you can provide a specific example, I'll edit my answer. – Nick ODell – 2014-09-13T03:42:18.010
@NickODell There was a lot of ruckus in Reddit's /r/Bitcoin about Blockchain.info having issues with an API vulnerability. The issue was with parsing and address balance misrepresentation. I don't understand the technicality but I do know they went offline to fix it so it's possible – Wizard Of Ozzie – 2014-09-13T07:11:41.917
Don't use blockchain.info that much but I've seen people complain about inconsistencies on reddit a lot. At one point it was a corruption in their database indexes and they any offline to fix that. But as far as I can tell they never really recovered. If you see something weird on blockchain.info always double check with one of the many others. Blocktrail, blockr... Whatever they're called. – Jannes – 2014-09-14T13:46:18.710