Hello there. I've always been a big fan of the
Wall Observer thread and always wondered why the Mempool never had such a discussion place to post relevant information about Mempool, instead of having random posts scattered all over the forums like
this and
this.
A freind of mine has had a transaction stuck for 6 days and counting, having paid a reasonable fee of 0.0014 BTC, but due to the huge tx size (26 KB) it resulted in an extremely low 5.9 satoshi/Byte fee.
It seems clear that the recent spike in mempool size together with the all-time-high recommended transaction fees are due to miners are
Milking BTC & Bcash difficulty adjustments, as the POW hashrate has been switching from one network to another, thus causing Bitcoin network to slow down and increasing pending transactions, which resulted in higher fees in order to get transactions confirmed in a reasonable time frame.
Last night, once hashrate returned to the Bitcoin network, low-fee transactions started to be picked by miners down to 10 satoshi/Byte, and even about a third of the 5-to-10 sat/B pending transactions were confirmed, but unfortunately not my friend's.
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fg0EPeMD.jpg&t=665&c=UbDEjXG-n5YsLQ)
It's interesting to see how the pending transactions under 10 sat/B are also the ones wasting more space at mempool:
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fs1zZdXW.jpg&t=665&c=fnWOccq8Nu7acQ)
Feel free to comment on future mempool happenings, ATHs etc on this thread.
Thanks for reading.