0 sats \ 3 replies \ @SqNr65 24 Mar 2023 \ on: The mempool memory usage is > 1GB bitcoin
I broadcast a non-urgent on chain tx at 1 sat/vbyte about a week ago partly just to see if it would go thru in such a crowded environment, mempool.space was showing about 95 blocks worth of unconfirmed txs
Took about 3 days to confirm. It's a stupidly long time but for that specific transaction it wasn't an issue at all, I would have been ok to wait a week before RBFing it.
If you have time on your side you don't really lose anything by sending it in at 1 sat, worst that could happen is you get purged and then you just try again with a small increase. But if you're waiting around not doing anything, might as well, no?
Did you or the recipient CPFP it, or did a miner organically select the transaction? Because 1 ṩ/vB transactions shouldn’t have made it into any blocks since 2023-03-07, and that’s a bit more than about a week.
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I also have a hard time believing this
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Isn't it funny that 3 days is a "stupidly long time" for a transaction, but that's the standard the legacy banking system operates on? I think sometimes we take for granted just how fast bitcoin is, even when it's at its slowest :)
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