They may waive the fee on the 1st check, but I don't think they put the fee on a wave. Might get wet.

Feels bad man

Did anyone receive a random check in the mail from Canada? I have the debit card (which I havent used in a while) and got a check for a small sum out of nowhere.

I've just read the last 100 posts in the bitcoin thread and I'm a little concerned. If I store a decent amount of my savings on my bitpay card, my blockchain dot info wallet, and my coinbase account are my funds safe? Are any of these particularly unsafe? From reading that thread, it looks like I'd be better off with something called a ledger nano s.
I don't mean to be an alarmist but some of the posters in that other thread have me a bit worried but I'm too much of a noob to really understand the concerns.
Thanks.

Has anyone had delays recently with their bitcoin payout from Ignition confirmed on the blockchain? A payout hit my wallet yesterday and still has not been confirmed. I had another payout from a different poker site hit my account today that was confirmed in under 5 minutes so I'm guessing its not an issue with bitcoin.

Is there anything I can do besides wait?

Well let's see. Your bitpay card is essentially like a prepay credit card so you're pretty safe as long as no one gets your credit card number or card+pin. Pretty much exactly like a debit card from any large bank.

Coinbase you are as safe as you feel you are. If their network is compromised and they lose all of their bitcoin to a thief are they going to repay you? Who knows? They can say what they want to say but when they file for bankruptcy due to insolvency because of theft, you'll be holding an empty bag.

Blockchain is a relatively safe way to hold coins although not the safest of even the web wallets out there. I think their seed is only a few words and hackers could trick you into signing into a phishing site that looks identical. I wouldn't hold Bitcoin on there. Other (safer) web or mobile wallets are Mycellium and Jaxx. There is plenty out there on Google about security and wallets. Just try searching around the web a little.

Smart people have a hardware wallet that basically holds your private keys with redundant security precautions in place. That is what the Ledger nano is or a Trezor. This is one of the safest ways to hold and make transactions with Bitcoin.

Then you have cold storage. Basically you can print out a paper that contains your private and public keys together on paper. You can laminate it, make several copies to place in many places, basically no one would ever be able to steal your coins unless they were to get ahold of this paper in real life and import the public and private keys into a wallet of some kind or use bitcoincore to transmit a transaction. Beware with this method if anyone were to see this paper or be able to copy info from it you're screwed.

Hey thanks a lot for your detailed answer. This helps tremendously in making decisions and helps me to make a more informed google search. Ha! also, I felt like a moron when I listed my bitpay debit card with the other options as I realized they weren't the same thing at all. But by that time, it was too late to edit.

No prob, good luck

So Coinbase has a warning message on their page saying users are reporting delays with deposits, purchases and withdrawals for US bank accounts.

What's the best alternative? Not sure if I'll switch but open to doing so. (will also sift back through this thread)

Same here. Waiting for 30 hours for my Bovada payout to be confirmed. There is a huge backlog of unconfirmed transactions right now in the blockchain. It doesn't help that Bovada/Ignition are cheap with their miner fees when they send bitcoin payouts. 120 Satoshi/B makes it hard for transactions to get confirmed in a reasonable time frame

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Eww that sucks about the 30 hour wait time on blockchain now still better then other things I have done in the past. I got a pending BTC cashout now I started earlier today I did notice something a little different when they sent me the message to my account letting me know they were waiting to approve my cashout it said it would take 72 hours when in the past it only said 48 hours?

I got the 72 hours message from them as well, but they sent the bitcoin in 10 hours. The problem is that they use such a low fee amount when sending the bitcoin that it takes forever to be confirmed. So even though I technically have the bitcoin in my wallet, I'm not going to be able to transfer it to my bank account or other sportsboiks/ poker rooms until it gets confirmed. Usually this takes an hour or less, but with the huge blockchain backlog and ignition's super low miner fees it's already been 32+ hours and counting

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The support team with my wallet believes that because of the low fee and low priority within the blockchain that my transaction will never be confirmed. I'm not familiar enough with this process to know if they are correct or not.

I have been exchanging emails with Ignition since yesterday and I'm still not completely sure what will happen if this payment never gets confirmed. For now I'm just taking screenshots of the transaction in the blockchain and my wallet to have as a proof and hoping for the best.

well my money hit my blockchain account and i sent it to my bitpay card about an hour and a half ago. 0 confirmations so far tho. If im able to send money to the bitpay card does that mean my payment to my blockchain was already confirmed from bovada?

When did you sent the money to Blockchain? I sent it Sunday, was confirmed Sunday, but still hasn't hit Blockchain.

Thanks. And yes the $ should be out of your Bovada account.

I requested the payout yesterday and early this morning I got confirmation that the money was sent. Checked blockchain around 10 am this morning eastern time money was in account sent money to bitpay card used double the transaction fee suggested and its already 1:43 and not one confirmation so far.

Dang ok. No sure what's up then with mine.

I'm in the same boat.
Payout from Ignition to block chain took about 12 hours but the transfer from block chain to Bitpay has been sitting there unverified since 8:30am yesterday .... so going on 32 hours now.

Is there any way to cancel the transfer ? Or do I just have to wait until it loads onto the Bitpay card ?

still pending here for me too and i sent plenty of fee money going on 9 hours never has it ever taken this long and whats even more weird is when i login to bitpay card it shows the pending transaction but when I click more information it says transaction id not found. Now on top of this when I try to login to blockchain they never send my confirmation email? Somethings definitely going on I wouldnt cashout if I was anyone else.

There is a backlog of 170k Blockchain transactions

how do i see the backlog steven? when i check the avg wait time it says like 60 minutes??? Where do i see info on backlog?

Never mind figured that out.. I see it now but it says on there website the avg confirmation times arent very high. Is 170k backlog above normal?

Massively above normal, if what I have been reading is correct, without any more transactions. That amount would take around 13hrs to be cleared out.

Well at this rate I should have the funds on my Bitpay card some time in June :-)

How long are check withdrawals taking these days? I logged into withdrew about a week ago and the funds are still in my account.