The bitcoin mempool is CRAZY right now. Sent out a transaction via my freebitco.in wallet, feels like it may pend till next week if not longer given it only was sent with a fee at ~54 sat/B. Is there any way I could pay freebitco.in to do replace-by-fee (RBF) or some other acceleration method? I'm not the recipient, so I can't do child-pays-for-parent (CPFP).
Anything? Thanks.
We found out what the problem was. We use the average of 3 different fee estimators and one of them (btc.com) has got stuck and not updated for 2 days which meant the average was too low. The good thing about that is that the fees btc.com are charging on their transaction accelerator are also low right now so we got most of the stuck transactions through.
Thanks, TheQuin! My transaction from about 31 hours ago got confirmed sometime recently. I also appreciate the links you shared and you taking the time to explain the situation. Cheers!