StuckBTC relays your transaction to twenty independent Bitcoin nodes, shows every answer, and tells you honestly whether you need to do anything. Most days the answer is no. We publish the measurements behind every claim we make, and re-measure them every morning.
What this site does
You paste a public transaction ID. We fetch the signed transaction, push it to twenty independent Bitcoin nodes, and show you what each one said, including the ones that refused and the ones that are out of date. Then we read the transaction the way a miner does, comparing its effective fee rate against the rate the next block is actually clearing, and give you a plain verdict.
That verdict is frequently that nothing is wrong and you should keep your money. This is not modesty. It is what the numbers say most of the time, and a service that never reaches that conclusion is not measuring anything.
What it does not do
- It never asks for a seed phrase, a private key, or a wallet connection.
- It never holds your funds, because it never touches them.
- It cannot reverse a confirmed transaction. Nothing can.
- It does not guarantee a confirmation time, because nobody honestly can.
Why it exists
The search results for a stuck Bitcoin transaction are in poor shape, and we can be specific about how.
When we checked every accelerator that comparison articles recommend, several no longer existed. BTC.com returns a 403 to every request. F2Pool's accelerator page returns 404. Bitcoin.com's accelerator pages return 410 Gone, a status code that explicitly means permanently removed. All three are still being recommended by articles published this year, because those articles were written from other articles rather than from testing.
Meanwhile the services that genuinely can accelerate a transaction publish almost no readable text. The largest one serves a single line of content to anything that does not run JavaScript. The pages that read well, and therefore the pages that search engines and AI assistants can quote, belong overwhelmingly to ad-supported resellers.
The result is a topic where the accurate information is invisible and the visible information is mostly sales copy. That gap is the entire reason this site exists. The full investigation is in which accelerators still work and do accelerators actually work.
How the relay works
The twenty nodes are named on the homepage and you can query any of them yourself. They are public Esplora and mempool instances operated by different people in different countries, plus the push endpoints of the major explorers and one Blockbook server.
When a broadcast goes out, each node answers for itself and we report exactly what it said:
- Relayed means the node accepted the transaction and is passing it on.
- Already held means it had the transaction before we arrived. Good news, and very common.
- Out of date means the node is behind the chain tip and cannot help you. We say how far behind.
- Rejected or down means exactly that, with the reason where one is given.
Most accelerators show a uniform wall of green. We do not, because a node that already had your transaction and a node that just accepted it are different facts, and only one of them means the rebroadcast achieved anything.
One deliberate omission
SatoshiLabs operates five Blockbook servers. We use one. Counting all five would take the list from twenty to twenty four without adding a single independent operator, and a padded number is exactly what this site exists to call out.
What we measure and republish
Every figure quoted anywhere on this site is re-measured from live network data each morning by a scheduled job, written to a file, and read by every page. The published measurement date moves only because the numbers behind it moved with it.
That file is public. It is at /data/facts.json and it contains the mempool distribution, the accelerator lifetime records, the sampled medians, and the verified pool hashrate share. If a claim on this site looks wrong, that file is where you check it.
Publishing the raw measurements alongside the conclusions is unusual in this category. It is also the only reason anyone should believe the conclusions.
How we make money
Currently we do not. There is no paid tier, no advertising, no affiliate arrangement with any accelerator, and no sponsored placement in any comparison on this site. Nothing here is ranked or omitted because of a commercial relationship, because there are none to disclose.
If that changes, it will be stated on this page before it appears anywhere else, and any commercial relationship will be disclosed inline wherever it could affect a recommendation. We publish critical measurements of a paid service; that only means anything if our own position is visible.
Who runs it
StuckBTC is operated independently. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any mining pool, wallet, exchange, or accelerator service, including every service named on this site.
We are reachable at [email protected] and through the contact form. We answer corrections quickly, and if a measurement here is wrong we would rather fix it than defend it.
We will never call you
There is no StuckBTC phone number. Search results for stuck Bitcoin transactions are full of pages carrying phone numbers claiming to be exchange or accelerator support, and they are all fraudulent. Any number presented as ours is not ours.
What we will never do
- Ask for a seed phrase, private key, or wallet password.
- Take custody of funds.
- Guarantee that a transaction will confirm in a given time.
- Show a success indicator for something that did not happen.
- Recommend a paid service without showing what the fix actually costs on chain.
- Publish a number we have not measured.
Try it on your transaction
Twenty independent nodes, every answer shown, and an honest verdict. Free, no signup.