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You heard a lot of good praises about Bitcoin; like it is decentralized, secure, and gives importance to privacy yada… yada…

As the word spread more and more, people became involved in Bitcoin, so the whole Bitcoin network became crowded.

Yes… Bitcoin is now a decade old technology having only 1MB size of blocks which are created every 10 minutes. With this limitation, miners who confirm blocks and add them into the blockchain can only process anywhere 200K to 400K transactions per day using high end hardware like ASICs.

If transactions exceed the limit then, they go to mempool where unconfirmed transactions have to wait for the miner to pick them up.

Here the problem is, as Bitcoin adoption increases, mining hardware does not get upgraded as fast as the adoption rate, so the Bitcoin mempool is filled with a lot of unconfirmed transactions.

Just look at the image showing the increasing rate of both Bitcoin transactions and mempool transactions.

When mempool is filling up, transactions have to wait days to get confirmation.

So what is the solution?

The solution is to use Replace By Fee (RBF) or Child Pays For Parent techniques or using Lightning Network to process transactions.

But these techniques work only when doing Bitcoin transactions, so if you do transactions without these techniques, then ultimately you have to wait for days.

Now you don’t have to worry about waiting for days because a lot of transaction accelerators are available in the market to bypass waiting time.

What Is a Transaction Accelerator? How Do They Work?

Before jumping on Transactions Accelerators, you should know the real reason transactions have to wait is the low fees because in the crowded network miner always considers mining a transaction which has high fees included.

So Transaction Accelerator came as a saviour for those who do not include high fees in the transaction.

A Transaction Accelerator is an off-chain service that enhances bitcoin transactions confirmation by including a particular transaction in the upcoming Bitcoin block by charging an extra fee for doing that.

These services are run by the miner themself (in most of the time) as they intend to get higher block mining fees and rewards.

Ok, now you have understood what exactly Bitcoin transaction accelerators are and how they work, it’s time to look at the best accelerators available in the market.

But before jumping into the list, you have to know that some Bitcoin Transaction Accelerators are free, some paid, and some came in both free and paid versions.

List of Best Bitcoin Transaction Accelerators.

1. ViaBTC.

ViaBTC is a mining pool that started to operate in 2016. They have many crypto tools; in those tools, the Bitcoin transaction accelerator is one.

They offer accelerator in both free and paid versions.

Free version only supports 100 free transactions per hour, and you don’t need to submit email or ID details for signup. You just have to provide any TXID (which you can get from any Bitcoin Blockchain Explorer easily) of delayed transactions that at least include a fee of 0.0001BTC/KB.

On the contrary, to use their paid service, you have to sign up and deposit the fee to ViaBTC wallet only then the unconfirmed transaction confirmed on the next block mined by viabtc.

2. BTC.com.

A famous block explorer running a Bitcoin transaction accelerator.

Although BTC.com doesn’t run the accelerator themselves, they cooperated with several leading Bitcoin mining pools to run the tool.

The tool is not free to use; fees are charged depending upon the transaction size and current Bitcoin price.

Regardless of fees, the accelerator promises a 75% chance of confirming your transaction within 1 hour and a 98% chance of confirming it within 4 hours.

3. 360 Bitcoin Accelerator.

360 Bitcoin Accelerator developed by the crypto market analyser tool Cryptocurrency360.com.

You can use the tool absolutely free of cost and even accelerate low amount transactions.

The tool stands out from the others on the list because 360 accelerator doesn’t depend upon any mining pool to accelerate transactions. Instead, the tool simply rebroadcast the transaction, so the mining pools accept the transaction, but this can be less effective than many paid accelerators.

However, they claim to have helped speed up the confirmation of over 1,000 Bitcoin transactions since launch.

4. BitAccelerate.

BitAccelerate is a free accelerate service like 360 accelerator, even having the same working pattern.

The main difference between both tools is BitAccelerate uses 10 Bitcoin nodes to rebroadcast the transaction; you just have to put TXTID and click on “Accelerate” that’s it, no need to sign in or sign up.

You can even resubmit your stuck transactions every 6 hours till it hits confirmed. Just make sure you don’t abuse their service as they have every right to ban any customer.

5. PushTX.

PushTX is a paid Bitcoin transaction accelerator run by Poolin, a multi-currency mining pool.

Tool work is pretty much the same as many paid tools work, you just need to put in a transaction TXHash, and the tool will estimate fees. Once you paid the fees tool will increase your transaction confirmation probability to 80% within an hour.

They accept Doge, Litecoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Dash, Zcash and lightning payments.

6. BTC Nitro.

BTC Nitro is a completely free Bitcoin transaction accelerator tool like BitAccelerator and 360 Accelerator.

The tool works the same as BitAccelerator by using different nodes to rebroadcast the transaction.

They claim to use 15 nodes to rebroadcast transactions, of which 5 of them are their own nodes.

To use the tool, you just have to put your transaction TXHash and hit the “Accelerate” button then the tool will take care of the rest.

Conclusion.

Accelerating Bitcoin transactions is not a popular method to get ahead of the waiting line because of other methods to make it easier to transact in Bitcoin like the lightning network, replace-by-fee method.

And even some spammy accelerating tools are also contributing to this downfall so beware of using any transaction accelerator (I suggest doing your own research before using any tool).

Although transaction accelerators can be useful when you make a transaction that is stuck in mempool.