As expected from a technical point of view. Meanwhile I have transactions stuck with over 40 euro's of fees. Pretty crazy and annoying. It's not my money and I warned for this still, I wish there was an easy way to up the fees or cancel transactions in this moment of collective panic. Or hey, perhaps I'm lucky and it gets back up in the mean time ;) I think there is money to be made helping people speed up their transactions for a fee.
I'm no expert on the subject, but isn't it possible to create a new transaction with higher fees, so that it is processed first. This transaction should also transfer enough out of the balance, so that the previous transaction won't ever be able to execute due to insufficient funds. (I'm not sure your wallet will allow it, but going at the protocol level I think you can (signing a transaction and posting it should do the trick) ).
Be careful as I'm not sure of myself regarding the protocol, (and you may end-up having your order executed two times, or maybe it has some built-in features to prevent this). You can probably experiment on bitcoin testnet. Depending on the amounts it may be judicious to find an expert to help you do the transaction. Good Luck.
I was sender as well as recipient which makes the risk less. Anyway, the order just progressed (and I did nothing), it (2 consecutive orders) was stuck for 33 hours at 600 satoshi per Byte (twice). BTC is really dead in its current from.
Problem was mainly that family started knocking on my door as I'm the tech guys that has been playing with BTC since forever. All of a sudden people want BTC so I recommend a paper wallet for the long term. Family members agree but panic completely in a time period of 1 week. Insane, I gave so many disclaimers (I literally said I feel BTC is dead in its current form and that they already missed the forks that may, or may not, save it)! So here's a free tip to anyone reading this: Say no. Say: Get your own wallets, get your own Bittrex/Gdax account. If they can't then they shouldn't have BTC or any coin in the first place. Past 33 hours took years of my life.
