Transaction with a high fee keeps getting skipped... Reason why? I was sent a transaction that has been unconfirmed for 3 days now - but the feerate is relatively high (53.8 sat/vB). Blocks have been confirming transactions with lower feerates for days, but for some reason skip over mine. For example, last night there were whole blocks of transactions &lt; 50sat/vB, but for some reason they skipped over mine (ex: https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000006e91bfcee72653533739b834f56c550405862508883f1).
My Tx: ed45c837d26c25fb6a763708376a87f1875ff57efbb0f56d1b26d00a16c1899e
I also see other unconfirmed transactions with high fees (https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/mempool/transactions?q=fee_per_kb_usd(17..40)&amp;s=time(asc)#) some that have been waiting for weeks.
Is there a technical reason as to why miners are skipping over transactions like these?
Thanks!
$ src/bitcoin-cli getmempoolentry ed45c837d26c25fb6a763708376a87f1875ff57efbb0f56d1b26d00a16c1899e
{
  &quot;fees&quot;: {
    &quot;base&quot;: 0.00012042,
    &quot;modified&quot;: 0.00012042,
    &quot;ancestor&quot;: 0.00125452,
    &quot;descendant&quot;: 0.00012042
  },
  &quot;vsize&quot;: 224,
  &quot;weight&quot;: 896,
  &quot;fee&quot;: 0.00012042,
  &quot;modifiedfee&quot;: 0.00012042,
  &quot;time&quot;: 1612178927,
  &quot;height&quot;: 668604,
  &quot;descendantcount&quot;: 1,
  &quot;descendantsize&quot;: 224,
  &quot;descendantfees&quot;: 12042,
  &quot;ancestorcount&quot;: 2,
  &quot;ancestorsize&quot;: 22989,
  &quot;ancestorfees&quot;: 125452,
  &quot;wtxid&quot;: &quot;ed45c837d26c25fb6a763708376a87f1875ff57efbb0f56d1b26d00a16c1899e&quot;,
  &quot;depends&quot;: [
    &quot;fb1183fa83759c51bd33d2bad9007804ea44f8256a7ae77f36f4f35a885a05d6&quot;
  ],
  &quot;spentby&quot;: [
  ],
  &quot;bip125-replaceable&quot;: false,
  &quot;unbroadcast&quot;: false
}

Looks like your transaction depends on another unconfirmed transaction, and that transaction is large and has a low feerate.  The combined feerate of the two transactions is only around 5.45sat/vB, which presumably explains the long time to confirm.