Re: [Sep 2025]Mempool empty, Consolidate your small inputs @0.24 sat/vbyte
⭐ Merited by stwenhao (1)
And then, it is all about incentives. Users can send their coins to addresses like that, and then, miners could claim them, by grinding signatures.
I get why it's interesting for miners, but what's the incentive for the user to send his coins so miners can take them?Quote
By the way: you got 40 sats, where you wanted, good luck sweeping them: https://mempool.space/address/bc1qzeflmklr2l4kdjkx4ak027jcg8jcs3hfne4fqy
For the reader who doesn't know what this is about: How to send 0.0000004 BTC?Sweeping them isn't difficult: this transaction includes another (dust) input, sends 38 out of 40 sats as a miner fee, and is waiting for 0.21 sat/vbyte transactions to be mined.
I get the 40 sats, but why also send 6418 sats to bc1qt039dyk3u6x9x3t52nv0dw7evwg2ja7w05gx3v?
You don't even need 51% to cause havoc, you just need timing, from block 914604 to 914609 ViaBTC with 10% of the hashrate mined 5 blocks but we're fine since it's mega farms behind this that have no incentive to do so
ViaBTC couldn't predict at block 914604 that they'd mine 4 blocks in a row. So if they would have wanted to double spend coins, it would take them months or even years of trying before they can mine enough blocks in a row to replace a few other blocks. During those months or years, they'd miss out on block rewards which means the total cost of doing this would be very high.Quote
I wonder if I should inscribe a block of my own, for as low as $500 per block, to be remembered for ages in the chain.... sounds tempting,
I wouldn't call storing data inside a large amount of other data "being remembered" 