What really shocks me is that so many people pay so high transaction fees. Almost every block on mempool contains max transaction fee like 500, 600, 700 sat/vByte.
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It may have been discussed an umptillionth times. Whenever I peek into the current pending candidate block at mempool.space, I'm still puzzled too, when I see few transactions that pay more than 100x the feerate that would guarantee them a swift confirmation in the next mined block.
It is what it is, some entities don't care about way overpaid feerate. I stopped being shocked, it's not my coins wasted. The miners won't mind and as long as I don't overpay my transactions any badly, it doesn't bother me. I leave me the tickle of being sometimes a bit amazed (or puzzled) what other entities do, not my business anyway.
It's a game for me to try to pay just the right amount of fee for my transactions, as little as possible for the confirmation time horizont I have for my transaction. Kinda like a sport challenge I don't want to loose. Call me a penny-pincher, I don't mind.
