payable function not working

Question

function() payable external {
    eth_balance[msg.sender] += msg.value;  
}

This is not working. The execution is reverted and uses about 21,000 gas. No matter if I set the gas crazy high like 800,000 it still fails. This is on rinkeby network. Any ideas? I'm using Remix IDE.

What msg.value are you using and what is the balance of msg.sender? — goodvibration, Oct 24 '19 at 05:02
Or in other words, a wild guess: msg.sender.balance < msg.value. — goodvibration, Oct 24 '19 at 05:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 26 '19 at 02:30

It turns out the contract is fine. The gas during certain times, no matter how high it's set will not allow the transaction to go through. I believe a lot of it has ethereum congestion. If you run into similar situations I would set the contract gas to something like 800,000 gas on the test network and try a different time of day.

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