BTC is getting truly awful lately - mempool backlogs and fees, yo.
Oh, man... tell me about it!
I had a transaction from May 23rd that did not get a first confirmation until just yesterday... A WEEK!!!
Granted, it was a "clean up dust" type transaction from one wallet to another of my own wallets and I deliberately put a "low" miner fee on it (only $1.50? HA!) because I was not in a hurry: I figured 5-10 hours maybe it'd come thru, no problem.
But still... a fucking WEEK?
And also I thought that if a transaction didn't confirm in something like 72 hours it was supposed to 'time out' and drop out of the mempool so you'd see it back in the sending wallet, and could try again with a higher fee. That *started* to happen apparently, once, when the transaction was visible on some block explorers but not others (weird WTF) but apparently THEN some node somewhere decided all on it's own to re-broadcast my transaction again...?
So the clock started over again and WTF I had to just wait and wait with the money in limbo, for a fucking WEEK??
Imagine if this was actually an important transaction and somebody got caught up in this with serious money? Bitcoin would be a sad JOKE to them, in that case...
Never lose the big picture - even if it is as warped as a house of mirrors on an acid trip.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
-Hunter S. Thompson
P.S. Or oh, hey! Never mind! On the other hand as long as you send a transaction (like I just did now a few minutes ago) with your wallet's "dynamic fee" recommendation OF FUCKING FIVE DOLLARS!!! $5!!! FUCK ME, FIVE?? Oh, yeah then sure of course you'll get your first confirm in ten minutes. Great! Wow that's just what Satoshi intended I guess... nahh not a penny or five cents fee maybe YEAH that's the ticket: Satoshi thought we should all be paying FUCKING FIVE DOLLARS PER TRANSACTION...!!!!!
Un-Fucking-Believeable....