Why is my Bitcoin Cash deposit taking so long to confirm?

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joker

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I was holding a little Bitcoin in my Ledger Nano S when the chain split happened so I'm now the proud owner of some BCC/BCH. Since it's basically free money, I plan to gamble away most of it during the NFL season this year. Last year about midway through the football season the bitcoin network did get quiet congested and the transaction fees spiked so this year I'm looking forward to using Bitcoin Cash for sports betting because the blocks are 8 times larger (1 Mb vs 8 Mb) so they should be much faster.

Anyone, I sent a Bitcoin Cash transaction from my Ledger Wallet to the BetCoin sportsbook over the weekend and it still hasn't confirmed!! WTF?? Isn't whole point that Bcash is supposed to be faster? Now I'm sorry that I didn't just pay a few extra cent and make the deposit using regular bitcoin.

Anyone else have these problems with Bcash taking forever to confirm?
 
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neet

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Sometimes blocks just take a very long time to confirm. On average there is a new block every 10 minutes but sometimes if a miner gets lucky it might only take a couple of minutes to solve the mathematical problem. Other times it takes much longer to solve the problem and we might not get a new block for 30 minutes or more. There is no fixed length.
 
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