Last week, I translated LoyceV's "consolidate your inputs" guide into Spanish, so that local users could also read it, and do the thing local boards are meant to do. As it is natural, some questions arose, and even if all of them were answered; one of them has gotten me thinking ever since.

A higher fees means that your transaction will be picked faster from the mempool than a lower fee transaction. But what happens when a transaction is big enough to pay more in fees than a smaller transaction with a higher fee? I'll add an example:

User A sends a 70 byte transaction at 60 satoshi/byte fee. It's a high fee, and that user is confident is going to be part of the next block. Total fee paid (size*fee); 4200 satoshi
User B sends a 200 byte transaction at 25 satoshi/byte fee. It's still a "high fee" IMO, but the user has no rush on getting that transaction sent, and believes the transaction will be confirmed within 4 hours tops. Total paid fee, 5000 satoshi

Fee from user A is higher than in B, but the net worth of the fee in B is higher than in A.

It is my understanding that because of that net worth, transaction B will be confirmed earlier than transaction A (5000>4200), but I'd like to double check it before I give an incorrect reply back in the local board.

Apreciate your replies on this, and thanks in advance for answering

Okay, that does actually make a lot of sense. I hadn't even considered block size; but if you can have almost 3 smaller transactions with a higher fee, instead of a bigger one with smaller fee; you'll earn 3 times more...

Thanks for solving that doubt! I'll leave the thread open in case someone wants to point out something more