The blockchain is seriously overloaded right now, transactions are experiencing huge delays:
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I believe this has also a bad impact on trading (i.e. too slow from and to exchanges).
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...don't have a few cents to get first block priority tx?
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You're not being accurate with a "few" cents anymore.
You have to understand PRIORITY charge.
You can go at near-zero cost if you don't mind the speed, or you can go fast and pay a few cents more.
In the last 24 hours:
108 transactions done with 0 fee (zero cost txs)
46.6k transactions done with 1-10 satoshi fee (network has spare capacity to process near-zero cost txs)
17.7k transactions done with 11-20 satoshi fee
28.1k transactions done with 21-30 satoshi fee
16.7k transactions done with 31-40 satoshi fee
40.9k transactions done with 41-50 satoshi fee
69.3k transactions done with 51-60 satoshi fee
16.5k transactions done with 61-70 satoshi fee
14.1k transactions done with 71-80 satoshi fee (anything beyond here is an overkill)
11.8k transactions done with 81-90 satoshi fee
3k transactions done with 91-100 satoshi fee
6.5k transactions done with 101-110 satoshi fee
2k transactions done with 111-120 satoshi fee
480 transactions done with 121-130 satoshi fee
3.1k transactions done with 131-140 satoshi fee
24.1k transactions done with 141-150 satoshi fee
6.5k transactions done with 151+ satoshi fee
...yes, even free txs are processed. And in the 1-10 satoshi range, there are like 46k+ txs processed. This wouldn't happen in a "seriously loaded" network because it would be busy serving people who are actually paying 30-40-50-60 and leaving those paying 1-2-5 satoshi behind.
On the other side, there are people paying 140+ satoshi, because they have some broken wallet software that is not estimating their fees correctly. Obviously those paying 140-150-300 satoshi will not get a faster first-block inclusion compared to someone paying, say, 80-90 satoshi.