Unrelated:
Public service announcement:
In the past i was able to help people using 3 tactics:
1) push their transaction to antpool's priority queue
2) push their transaction to ViaBTC's free priority queue
3) give them advice on how to create a CPFP, RBF or double spending the inputs of the unconfirmed transaction
However....
1) Lately, somebody, has been spreading around the link to antpool's priority queue, so people who are cheaping out on their fees can abuse this system to save a couple of bucks
2) ViaBTC's free slots are gone in less than a second... I haven't been able to push a single transaction to their queue today
3) I can still give advice on CPFP, RBF or Double spending... However, do know that this advise is rather technical...
So, from now on, i will only help people to fix their own problem... I will no longer be pushing their transactions to priority queues... I haven't discussed this with HCP (yet), but i do hope he shares the same idear....
Sadly, it seems like the ones who were spamming AntPool accelerator have now switched to ViaBTC. I get the impression people are botting it to get transactions submitted to gain "tips"... Public service announcement:
In the past i was able to help people using 3 tactics:
1) push their transaction to antpool's priority queue
2) push their transaction to ViaBTC's free priority queue
3) give them advice on how to create a CPFP, RBF or double spending the inputs of the unconfirmed transaction
However....
1) Lately, somebody, has been spreading around the link to antpool's priority queue, so people who are cheaping out on their fees can abuse this system to save a couple of bucks
2) ViaBTC's free slots are gone in less than a second... I haven't been able to push a single transaction to their queue today
3) I can still give advice on CPFP, RBF or Double spending... However, do know that this advise is rather technical...
So, from now on, i will only help people to fix their own problem... I will no longer be pushing their transactions to priority queues... I haven't discussed this with HCP (yet), but i do hope he shares the same idear....
Once again, the greed of a few has ruined it for everyone else
What this means, is that there are now pretty much no "easy" options left for getting transactions unstuck.
I will continue to try ViaBTC (and AntPool) when and where I can, but what used to be pretty much a guaranteed confirmation is now maybe a 1% chance at best.
To avoid issues, please either pay the required Bitcoin fees, (or move to altcoins
)