Yes19.7%
No80.3%
66 votes \ poll ended
85 sats \ 1 reply \ @Alby 6 Sep 2023
We've started prediction markets on that! No sats there yet... but still, fun to predict!
https://manifold.markets/LightningBee/will-bitcoin-mempool-clear-in-2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rijndael OP 6 Sep 2023
Fun!
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @nerd2ninja 5 Sep 2023
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @mallardshead 5 Sep 2023
Sure, but eventually after absorbing enough trust (value) it will move with global GDP appreciating by whatever new goods/services are added to the global economy. Bitcoin's fixed liberties will shine brightest and the way to earn more [monetary] value won't be by holding bitcoin, it'll be by holding Ford stock etc.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @nerd2ninja 5 Sep 2023
Shhh. This was one of those times when I wasn't trying to be that deep lmao
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead 5 Sep 2023
I can't help it tho!!! Bitcoin has put a bypass into my brain's clock.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rijndael OP 5 Sep 2023
FOREVER
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @2bithits 5 Sep 2023
Doesn't look like it
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zepasta 6 Sep 2023
Doupt
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @CruncherDefi 5 Sep 2023
Can we please stop talking about 'number of transaction pending' or 'MB in mempool pending'? Its totally meaningless.
Look. I can generate 100 MB of bitcoin transactions with 0-sat fees and keep broadcasting those to my peers. Those are legal transactions (in early day of bitcoin it was normal to use 0-sat fee).
Will those txs ever clear? Of course not. 0-sat-fee is too low for today standards.
Will those inflate 'MB in mempool pending' and 'number of transactions pending' metrics? Yes!
See? It's kinda meaningless to care about this metric. Blockchain processes ~4MB of data every 10 minutes and that's that. It doesn't care how long is the backlog of txs.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @orangesurf 5 Sep 2023
Broadly correct, but to nitpick your peers will almost certainly inform your node of a min relay fee > 0.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz 5 Sep 2023
maybe
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead 5 Sep 2023
Baseline forming a higher consistent floor, looks like a trend we haven't seen over a period more than a few months. I don't see it in any other project mempool.
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