How to accelerate your bitcoin transaction with Electrum

iMad

Jan 22, 2023 • 1 min read

If you've recently made a transaction through Electrum but it has been stuck for a while, this article is here to help. You'll learn how to efficiently speed up the confirmation process, ensuring that your transaction is validated as soon as possible.

First, we start by right-clicking our unconfirmed transaction and selecting "Increase fee":

You should then click "Sign" (type your password if asked to) and then click "Broadcast":

You're now done. The following message should show:

A few things to keep in mind:

In order to be able to accelerate/increase your transaction fees, you must have enough funds to cover the fees.
The transaction must be using RBF (Replace-by-fee).

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