what if a wallet contains many small (~5k sat) payouts. how long will it take for them to have high enough priority?
last time i sent some of these coins to an exchange and it had low priority while i had 0.0001 fee included.
the coins were at least a week in my wallet before sending.
Um. A long time. If you want to consolidate them without paying fees, put 20 of them together with a 1+ bitcoin input that's aged for more than 200 days and have one or two outputs of more reasonable size. It may take a long-ish while to get a confirmation, as that'll be a big (in size) transaction and no-fee transactions propagate very slowly because they're rate-limited. Wait for that output (or those outputs) to age for a while, then rinse, repeat.