36 sats \ 1 reply \ @petertodd 2 Feb 2023 \ parent \ on: Someone just took up the entire blockspace of a block with a wizard NFT/Ordinal bitcoin
More to the point, the tx wouldn't be mined without a fee because other txs would always outbid it. The mempool is never that empty.
The actual cost of that tx in terms of expected fee revenue has been estimated to be about $2000. Likely that Luxor was paid out of band, and/or did it because it's funny.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rax0m 2 Feb 2023
Well, if the mempool clears from a mined block it will be almost empty for the next minute or so.
Meaning, the agreement could have been "only mine this block if the total fees that you would get from a normal block is less than 100k sats"
It would take longer but with the current fee market it would have been mined eventually (mempool frequently empty recently) for a cost of $20. Or take 10x on the numbers then $200 but the expected time to mine it is divided by 10.
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