Two days with no confirmations, does that mean that the transaction is permanently stuck? Is there a good email address to contact cashier support? I am only seeing a web form on their support page.

Bitcoin from merge to bc to coinbase to bank
2-14 request withdrawal
2-23 received
Huge improvement from how long checks used to take.

I was wondering if I could get some advice regarding withdrawing from Carbon. The only withdraw option open to me at the moment is check. I recall that checks were taking many months for people, but reading through some more recent posts apparently the wait times are much more reasonable. But there are only a few posts so I am not really confident.

Seeing the most recent posts here suggests that using Bitcoin is the most popular method, however, as I mentioned, this method is unavailable for me right now.

Is it worth it to go through the process of depositing a small amount using Bitcoin, in order to unlock the same as a withdrawal option or should I just request a check seeing as some people are getting them within a reasonable timeframe?

1st BTC withdrawal of the year for me was free.

I now see the 5% being taken out on my subsequent withdrawals.

See previous post. I believe he had 2 weeks from small bitcoin deposit to unlock cash out option to bitcoin in coinbase awaiting transfer to bank account. A no-brainer. Only downside is 5% bitcoin cash out fee.

guy on twitter, think it was AZNallin, pretty solid mtt record, said something like "a lot of unconfirmed transactions right now on blockchain, ~80,000."

he advised holding off on using BC until some of them have cleared up. thoughts?

i am in no hurry tho, building roll to 5k to take max advantage of my free withdraw sick brag

Well, I received my bitpay card on Sat. and plan on making a cash out Mon. to test it. Per EndtheFed's posts [Bovada/Ignition pay out thread] I'll up the miners' fee to increase the likelihood of its confirming in a timely manner.

Per EndTheFed, while this transaction and 35 others were awaiting confirmation due to low mining fees sent by site, they eventually made money due to BTC rising in value.

Until Merge starts paying a high enough fee to avoid this altogether, it seems reasonable not to w/d at times like this. Mempool is down to like 70k now, but that's still very high and it could spike back up higher again.

That's irrelevant; the opposite effect is just as likely. With a congested mempool and sites not paying for priority fees, eventually people are going to lose money from having their transaction stuck for 1+ day.

People shouldn't have to worry about getting their withdrawal stuck, especially when Merge is severely overcharging on bitcoin payouts with the 5% fee. It would only cost them ~50 cents per transaction to make sure this isn't a problem.

That may well be true to you, but to those who were probably in a somewhat anxious state at that time, it was a nice silver lining I would imagine.

I just had an unconfirmed transaction disappear from Coinbase. It was sitting there for 2 days unconfirmed then I checked this afternoon and now it's not even listed. This has never happened to me before, anybody else had or having this problem?
thanks

Check EndTheFed's Bovada/Ignition posts for some clarity on that issue.

got it, thanks

With bitcoin now on the rise again and Merge now taking multiple days for withdraws, how does that work? Should you being cancelling and make a new withdraw again, your not going to get penalized for the gain are you, maybe they are being slow because of the fluctuations lately? Any ideas?

It doesn't matter what the price is when you request a withdrawal. All that matters is the price at the time it's processed.

The fluctuations in btc price shouldn't affect payout speeds at all.

Date - Action
2/25/2017 - Withdrawal request (low 4 figures) via Bitcoin
2/28/2017 - Arrived to my Bitcoin wallet

Very nice that Bitcoin is available and fast. Very unfortunate that the quality and volume of the poker games has declined so much that I have to withdraw money to put on other sites to supplement my volume and action.

Carbon's policy on bitcoin withdrawals:

I've made a few withdrawals this year that were all hit by a fee, the most recent was processed today, so I finally sent an email asking why I never received a free withdrawal.

First response:

This was a pretty laughable response seeing how he cherry picked the second sentence of their policy.

I sent a follow-up asking for clarification and they replied with:

So, if any of you already made a withdrawal earlier in the year that was hit by a fee, don't expect to now receive a free withdrawal even though the policy says you should.

At this point, I don't particularly care that much about having the fee reimbursed, but I did email them again. This time more generally about why the 5% fee isn't reasonable to begin with and I think others should do the same. Every other site is far more generous with their bitcoin withdrawal policies, and rightfully so, but Merge for some reason has decided to turn bitcoin withdrawals into a revenue generating part of their business. Unfortunately, we have little to no recourse, but I'll continue emailing them about it every so often and hope the policy eventually changes.

Point made. Since nuttin beats a failure but a try, will drop a note in the main lobby's "Comments & Improvements" box. Btc requested 2/26. Processed 3/2. Now pending on bitpay card awaiting 3 confirmations. Bitpay is stating it's awaiting 1 confirmation but, I'm use to 3 needed for circle.

Such bs, was gonna post the same thing, yay 5% fees.

Note sent. Funds available on bitpay card.

Just requested a cash out. Blockchain address with 33 characters was generated. Used to 34. Counted bc and copied address several times. Was accepted by Carbon. Sent a PM to EndTheFed for his take on it. Will update.

33 is fine.

Great. EndTheFed agrees with you. Thanks.

The "first withdrawal of the year free" policy DOES NOT APPLY TO ANY EWALLET WDRAWs. I have emailed them asking this question specifically.

BTW I thought that they had increased the withdraw limit north of 5k? I see it's at 5k at the moment, they switched it back at some point and does anybody know when?

All is well. Processed today. Funds now on bitpay card.