I increased the fee to 10 Satoshis in Electrum as per your suggestion.
Unfortunately, that isn't enough
now... that message suggesting 10 sats/byte was written hours ago... the fees are always constantly changing. This is why you need to check the
current state of the network before setting a fee if speed of confirmation is important to you.
Always check here:
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,2hand here:
https://mempool.space/As you can see, as I type this... to be close to 1meg of the tip you need to be using ~20+ sats/byte:
It's constantly changing, by the time you read this it will probably be different.
You keep linking to the
address... not the actual
transaction...
Try this:
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/63c1fbcd718de7cfcb17aca86c6036ba81bbdd8dea871e1d6579f44efc10173aand this:
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/fc20da9ca6d90913f8dc0d5b19d0a63b58319def64ad8dab20df803af9324817Why did the balance double to approx $88 from $44.
It's because of the "double spend" caused by using RBF... when you "bump fee", it creates a 2nd transaction that should get confirmed before the 1st transaction... nodes that support RBF should realise it is an RBF and "drop" the 1st from their mempool, but not all nodes do this...
So, for a period of time... both of your transactions exist... the wallet sees 2 incoming transactions, and it seems like you're going to get paid twice
Of course, as soon as either one of the transactions gets confirmed, the other transaction instantly becomes invalid and will "disappear".
EDIT: and now it seems like blockchair has figured out you're doing an RBF ("double spend") and has removed the lower fee transaction... so the balance is showing "correctly"
Can the fee be increased multiple times.
Yes, if you don't mark it as "final" when doing the RBF. If you mark it final, it basically turns RBF "off" and you won't be able to bump the fee any more.
Why is Armory rated as the best wallet in one list and third best in a second list
Which lists?
Like a lot of "10 Best XXXXXXX's" type lists, these "ratings" are generally terribly subjective and rated according to whatever criteria the list author decides to use. Their priorities may not align with yours.
It's like movie critics etc... just because they love foreign language films in black and white doesn't mean you will... or should.