Stuck in mempool @ 17.9 for 2 weeks

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But when I have been using Electrum wallet, it will not take more than 3 weeks before I will see the coin back on my wallet and I will spend it again.

How long it will take a transaction to be dropped when using Electrum depends entirely on the Electrum servers you are connect to. Some will run with the default of two weeks, some will run with higher limits, and some will run with virtually no limit at all. If you are still seeing your unconfirmed transaction on Electrum after several months, you can try swapping to different servers to see if you can find one which has already dropped it.

Alternatively just make a full RBF replacement.

The best alternative to me is to never make a transaction that does not have RBF. If my transaction has RBF, all I will do after frustration of stuck transaction is to just increase the fee. I will prefer this than full RBF that I will be looking for a node that is supporting it to rebroadcast my transaction because all nodes are supporting the old and still existing RBF. But if a transaction is not supporting RBF, the person that make the transaction will have no other option than to go for your suggestion.

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[LoyceV]

The best alternative to me is to never make a transaction that does not have RBF. If my transaction has RBF, all I will do after frustration of stuck transaction is to just increase the fee.

I try to avoid small change, so whenever possible, I send the full amount. The one time I did RBF in Bitcoin Core, it added another input, without giving me the chance to use Coin Control. So apart from being bad for privacy, the transaction size also doubled.

[philipma1957]

But when I have been using Electrum wallet, it will not take more than 3 weeks before I will see the coin back on my wallet and I will spend it again.

How long it will take a transaction to be dropped when using Electrum depends entirely on the Electrum servers you are connect to. Some will run with the default of two weeks, some will run with higher limits, and some will run with virtually no limit at all. If you are still seeing your unconfirmed transaction on Electrum after several months, you can try swapping to different servers to see if you can find one which has already dropped it.

Alternatively just make a full RBF replacement.

The best alternative to me is to never make a transaction that does not have RBF. If my transaction has RBF, all I will do after frustration of stuck transaction is to just increase the fee. I will prefer this than full RBF that I will be looking for a node that is supporting it to rebroadcast my transaction because all nodes are supporting the old and still existing RBF. But if a transaction is not supporting RBF, the person that make the transaction will have no other option than to go for your suggestion.

which is why I use trezor it allows rbf

with good management you can greatly reduce fees.

and I am not a "coin racist" so I do keep LTC and Doge on hand as they are the superior coins for smaller sends.

[serveria.com]

I'm witnessing a sharp drop in fees lately. Idiots running out of monkey pics I presume or?

The transaction I mentioned in my previous posts went up from ~25-30sat/mb to just ~5-6sat/mb from tip. Perhaps time to consolidate small inputs is near?

[philipma1957]

I'm witnessing a sharp drop in fees lately. Idiots running out of monkey pics I presume or?

The transaction I mentioned in my previous posts went up from ~25-30sat/mb to just ~5-6sat/mb from tip. Perhaps time to consolidate small inputs is near?

I see 25 sats and up not 5-6

I have a 22 sat that is 30 hours old and not going anywhere.

https://btc5.trezor.io/tx/b020a419353a421e9394d635df4d3cafa00fbd447e42a3b757af1bf633b47b9f

[serveria.com]

I'm witnessing a sharp drop in fees lately. Idiots running out of monkey pics I presume or?

The transaction I mentioned in my previous posts went up from ~25-30sat/mb to just ~5-6sat/mb from tip. Perhaps time to consolidate small inputs is near?

I see 25 sats and up not 5-6

I have a 22 sat that is 30 hours old and not going anywhere.

https://btc5.trezor.io/tx/b020a419353a421e9394d635df4d3cafa00fbd447e42a3b757af1bf633b47b9f

I'm sorry if my post was misleading, what I meant was "5-6mb from tip" not 5-6sat/mb fee. It's a value my wallet is estimating, the position of transaction in mempool. 5-6sat/mb is definitely unrealistic atm.

[o_e_l_e_o]

I have a 22 sat that is 30 hours old and not going anywhere

We are currently mining transactions at 23 sats/vbyte, so you might get lucky over the next couple of hours.

We are also around 23 blocks behinds where we "should" be in this difficult epoch, which doesn't help. Those 23 blocks would clear us out to around 11 sats/vbyte.

[promise444c5]

I have a 22 sat that is 30 hours old and not going anywhere

We are currently mining transactions at 23 sats/vbyte, so you might get lucky over the next couple of hours.

We are also around 23 blocks behinds where we "should" be in this difficult epoch, which doesn't help. Those 23 blocks would clear us out to around 11 sats/vbyte.

I guess the whole stuff is making sense to me now it's a direct variation  the transaction fee decreases in accordance to the block ruminant