Keep in mind one thing when looking at that explorer. Even if it shows many min transactions confirming at 30 sat/Vbyte it doesn’t mean yours will confirm even if you have the same fee. You gotta add 5-10 sats extra and it’ll confirm in a few hours.

I did a few 40 sat/vbyte transactions today and one confirmed very quick but the other took all day even with the exact same fee. There is no guarantee that it will fill soon.

This is a meme and feels like an entire joke but it is the reality of things now. Or what could explain what we are facing these days in the Bitcoin network? Mempool has been a subject of controversies and the target of spammers due to the loopholes caused by the supposed developments by the developers. This has given the miners an undue advantage and they will not want it to change since they are gaining massively through it. But this is no gain for the rest, not even Bitcoin itself, so it needs to change as this needs to be forced out of their hands. It is so disheartening that miners are now behaving so selfish and will not vote for some changes that will affect them.

I am still watching the development because it will be so ugly if it continues to like this and miners monopolise everything in the name of Bitcoin structure and its decentralisation. Why not get the power away from them and bring sanity back to the network? Leaving it like this only means gains for them. The time is now and this is so annoying and shows the weakness of the Bitcoin network.

Lobbying exists in the USA. Corporations fund politicians to push policies that are in line with corporation interests.

Can you confidently say that no incentives have flown within the powerful or influential hands of the decentralized Bitcoin network, in order to generate significantly more income of large-scale mining interests and anyone else who would be benefiting from ordinals?

I have previously been called a conspiracy theorist for blaming miners or mining related interests for the ordinals spam, since that opinion I've realized that I've overlooked the other interests potentially making a profit as well, however the difference between them and miners is that miners have the option to exclude ordinals for the betterment of the network if they wanted to do so.

One thing that I will agree with against my theory, is that core devs are to blame more than any other party as they have ultimately enabled this problem and so far have not aimed to fix it in a consensus manner. Are they lobbied, or ignorant? I have to believe, based on how this world works, that they are lobbied...and that pools are probably a part of that lobbying campaign, as well as any other profiteers involved in the ordinals scheme

Wouldn’t that just make it worst? Whatever automation system that are creating these spam ordinals can then just create an "inscription wall" at 50sat/vb and if no mining pools confirms them, that means all future hash rate fee will always be more than 50sat/vb.

I know the bitcoin nodes are decentralized and we can all create our own, but we are so far behind in game, we would have a better chance getting hit by lightning, after riding a train that just got derailed, while boarding after surviving a plane crash. Basically .00000001 chance of mining a block.

For all we know this ordinal automation system, could be using a pay it forward mechanism, which whatever ordinal transaction was mined from the previous mempool block, it must create the same ordinal transaction on the next mempool block 1. In this case, no one loses any $, as it’s a pay it forward system only when it drops to a certain rate fee. Then when the network gets congested again, every mining pools wins and go through this never ending cycle each time it gets to a certain rate fee threshold. We are screwed basically. At least clear out mempool first, because there are millions USD unconfirmed right now. At least balance the inputs/outputs, before regulating what the rate fee will be moving forward.

Literally the past 5 days, after a new block is mined under 50sats/vb… 1500-2500 new ordinals transactions are being created automatically with the previous rate fee of the block that was just mined. Whatever system that are creating all of these ordinals, needs to be stopped.

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https://dune.com/cryptokoryo/brc20


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Here we go again....

A 10 minutes ago a few blocks were mined and right away, some automated ordinal system created 2000+ ordinal transactions on the next Mempool Block 1.

3 minutes after block 825027 was found. Mempool Block 1
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/01/09/s1ubT.png

5 minutes after block 825027 was found. Mempool Block 1
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/01/09/s1AHl.png

10 minutes after block 825027 was found. Mempool Block 1
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/01/09/s1CtJ.png

5 minutes after block 825027 was found on Mempool Block 2
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/01/09/s1Hs1.png

10 minutes after block 825027 was found on Mempool Block 2
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/01/09/s1naW.png

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/01/09/s1S9m.png

I seriously can't make this stuff up, this ordinal automate system doing it job well.

Not really that still an assurance considering that fee could shoot up per sat/byte in next minute specially if pending transactions could really be having that build up. Just like on what
i have done in last few weeks on which i did set +20 sat per byte on a 100 sat/byte high priority but ending up on pending because it did shoot up into almost 200 sat/byte
a few minutes on which it would really be able to scratch your head off with those sudden spikes and considering on how many bucks that you would really be needing to
pay then it would really be that a pain in the ass on doing such thing.

Unless if you are transacting huge amounts then you cant really be able to feel off with those fees but if you are someone who do make out those micro transactions
then you would really be able to feel those huge fees that would really be hurting you whenever you do make a transaction.
Now fee is really that going back to normal but still that high. Im missing those 1say/byte fee.

Wanted to get a transaction going, I was going to use 31 sats/vbyte which has been quick for the past few days and I look and the recommended fee is like 250 sat/byte. I go to mempool explorer and I see that the fees are at least 200 sat/vbyte. And this is on a Saturday. Makes no sense. I was going to do a transaction on the weekend thinking it would be lower than 31 sats/vbyte but I guess I was wrong.

Very difficult to gauge when these Ordinals are going to be spamming the mempool. I remember it was the same during the holidays, you assumed that on New Years day it would be clear because people are taking a day off, but no there was another day of 200 sat/vbyte of transactions. Whats strange is that during the ETF launch it was actually affordable, the mempool wasn't expensive but no idea why now all of a sudden it is.

exchange hotwallets have large number of outputs because they can batch many withdrawals.. they can afford to be penalised as they already make profit on everyones withdrawal fee*.. and a sidenote, i do consider them spam. just not nefarious spam

if a usual lean 1 in 2out is 226bytes lets say at 50sat/byte = 11,600 for a one user withdrawal+change return =11600 a withdrawal
if a batched 1in 100out is 3592bytes lets say at 50sat/byte = 179,600 for 101 outputs(100withdrawals+1change) = 1796 a withdrawal
they could be penalised at 6x base priority fee and not feel the pain

*if you look on most exchanges internal user display. most are charging more then 11,600 per withdrawal even if the network rate shows it costs less per withdrawal(1796) when CEX batch 100withdrawals together.. so CEX can be penalised as spam and still operate..

heck they can just do 200 withdrawals (201 out) =6992bytes*50sat=349,600/200=1,748sats per withdrawal
these 1796 or 1748 withdrawal network cost is still cheaper then 1 user doing 1 withdrawal(1in 2out lean) at 7-8sat/byte

so like i said if the rest of the network of 1in 2out lean tx are being charged at 50sat/byte.. a CEX spamming every block can be penalised for batching and still not get harmed at a higher rate than lean tx pays

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.. the great think about digital money is that its code.. and code can be programmed to do wonderful things


P.S i would not mind CEX offering withdrawals to users at 1796sat by batching discount.. IF thats what they charged users at the internal CEX user balance withdrawal request charge..
but they make profit from users by charging more then network fee pretending users have to pay more. so.. yea they should be penalised along with other spammers. we should not be incentivising spammers/centralised services.. while then causing actual independant bitcoin holders to pay the most for just paying 1 recipient occassionally