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Board Electrum
Re: Mining fees as popularity of bitcoin rises
by
Zaguru12
on 03/09/2023, 14:15:24 UTC
How would I consolidate small funded addresses on Android Electrum?  I don't see an option to select and spend from 2 or more addresses.
Take note that Electrum on Android lacks a lot of basic features, like coin control, customizing fees, signing BTC message, etc, if you want to use the coin control feature on Electrum, use it on the desktop version.

The mobile wallet for this features you listed is BlueWallet it also supports coin control and the other features mentioned. And not like just the regular Bip39 wallets BlueWallet supports the importation of seeds from electrum wallet. With most features lacking in Mobile electrum I will advise Sidney986 to stick to Electrum Desktop and then compliment it with a Mobile BlueWallet if he wishes to have his wallet on his mobile device.

When consolidating many small inputs you should not mind waiting, because you'll also want to save fees in that transaction, consolidation includes many inputs and as such a larger tx size. 1 sat/vbyte is the best fee rate for consolidating many inputs, and you then have to be patient and just wait for the tx to be confirmed.

I wouldn’t advice the act of the act of waiting probably too long for confirmation when consolidating fees, the mempool could easily get more congested while waiting and at this period of time if he needs to make a transaction then he would have to bump the fees which is paying more and that defeats the purpose of coin consolidation or wait without having access to your coins it it’s confirmed or dropped (if mempool congestion doesn’t drops). The best thing is to use a transaction fee that is considerably low and also top priority base on mempool to get them consolidated fast. If the transaction fee  for high priority or medium priority confirmation is not suitable to you then I would say don’t initiate the consolidation yet but wait till then.