Look if you go here
https://mempool.jhoenicke.de/#BTC,4d,countit tells you current tx by sats this is about 5 minutes off which is within reason as it is 2-6 minutes slow on average. it reads 3:29 my post is 3:34
it shows 117,000 tx at 3 sats which mean that won't clear
it shows 2,348 tx at 4 sats which means it could clear with a few quick blocks
it shows. 1,474 tx at 5 sats which is likely to clear in 2-3 blocks
it shows 1,154 tx at 6 sats which is likely to clear in 1-2 blocks
it shows 948 tx at 7 sats which is likely to clear next block
all of the above you can see below and mentally place your best guess.
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.talkimg.com%2Fimages%2F2024%2F07%2F25%2F45vCW.png&t=664&c=8d2XdNQI5whBTA)
it pretty fucking easy to do it the way I am saying.
If I was doing an important send I would spend 7.15 sats byte and feel pretty safe
If I was doing a critical time based send I would spend 9.15 sats per byte and not worry at all
If I was consolidating my own wallets where time is unimportant I would do 4.46 sats
I have more than one wallet:
big
medium
small
So consolidating them is not time based as I only do 1 at a time. and I almost never consolidate or add to the big wallet.
I hope this helps