In this case, why are you forcing yourself to make a transaction because before starting to make a transaction, we will definitely be shown the nominal value of what we will send and the shipping costs before confirming and I think this can be minimized if you really don't force yourself to make a transaction at that time. .
Because if you previously postponed your transaction for a few days, the transaction fees will return to normal. But you really can't blame this because you may have just experienced this and experienced bad luck, not because of the halving, but because you weren't careful in looking at transaction costs, so this is unavoidable.
This could be a good lesson for you, friend, and I would like to suggest you check the transaction fees
https://mempool.space/ before making the transaction you want to do so that something like this doesn't happen again.
One thing is the transaction fee sometimes for core Bitcoin enthusiasts are always a problem reason been that they usually transact in bitcoin and waiting most at times doesn’t help like them. Some of them are cross boarder transactions which the bitcoin mode of transactions are way to easy and smooth. As things stands now I will rather say they find alternative and stop using bitcoin for micro transactions.
Right now the runes are no longer available on the network but with the way the ordinals went and came back I wouldn’t rule out their return most especially with bull a round the corner they hype could grow again. Devs should find a solution permanently to it though.
As for OP it wasn’t because of halving that this happen, but because many people were making transactions and this could happen anytime most especially with the new inscription and runes too
Apart from that, when looking at what the OP said there was no explanation that he was transacting whether it was urgent and had to be done immediately or not so I said that for the fee problem it could actually be checked first before confirming because when we make transactions via bitcoin of course before we confirm there is a note where there are details that indeed describe how much we will send and how much fee is used so that when it is not too rushed to do then why do we force it right?
In the end when talking about fees now they are back to normal and the fees that jumped hard only happened a few days after the halving. But it has happened and cannot be regretted for now and it's time for the OP to make this a learning material because in the end things like this we will definitely not feel it once because at one moment it could be that the fee will increase again and so that the same thing does not happen again then we must be more careful in looking at fees for transactions so that what we do from shipping does not feel lost due to fees that are too large.
