chrisomega

You can see a lot of overpriced transactions in blocks. Miners only include higher-fee transactions first. The last block had a ton of high fees while 8 sat/vB would’ve done it.

Honestly, it’s best to analyze the mempool yourself if you want accurate estimates. I check jochen-hoenicke’s site for a more precise view. At this moment, mempool.space shows 11 sat/vB for high priority, but I see…

Mining can still be profitable even in a bear market. Just a few days ago, bitcoin's total hash rate hit an all-time high. That says something about profitability.

Seems like you’re in the dark about potential passphrases. If it’s not a short one with a few characters, brute-forcing it isn’t realistic. And if someone else set the password, is it even really yours?

Miners are all about profit. They'll grab the 1.98 sat/vbyte transactions first and fill in with cheaper ones to max out their earnings. It's just some miners are slow to adapt to new rules.

Dude, did you even read that article you linked? It doesn't really cover coinbase transactions at all; it’s all about signing up for Coinbase which is just an exchange.

When miners or pools create a block, they include what's called a coinbase transaction. It's always the very first transaction in the block, and it has the newly minted coins. You can check all of this on block…

Any bitcoin private key can create different address types. You have normal legacy addresses starting with 1, segwit ones that start with 3, and native ones starting with bc1. Maybe Exodus is only picking up segwit and…

There are tools to help estimate fees. They show header sizes and how inputs/outputs affect fees.

Yep, fees are indeed lower if both sender and receiver are using SegWit or Taproot addresses. The key is the number of inputs from legacy vs new types. More inputs from legacy means higher fees.

Remember, your seed phrase doesn't just create one private key. It makes a bunch of them! That's the beauty of it. Need multiple addresses? One seed phrase covers it all, no need for backups of each private key.

Honestly, it's tough to say. We only guess the hash power of mining pools, and a lot of miners are just unknowns. A solo miner might've hit a block with super low power, but we can't track individual miners.

It’s strange that I never got any recovery keys when I set up my vault back in 2015. Just had 2FA and a secondary email for backup. Now they’ve got recovery tools on GitHub asking for keys.

I’ve got all the info needed, but I’m still lost on how to use it. Any guidance would be great.

If your wallet is 2-of-3 and you have two keys, you should be able to spend your coins. I’d suggest installing Electrum and running it safely, maybe using Tor for privacy.

The usage is pretty similar to the old tool. Check the detailed instructions on GitHub. You’ll need to run the project with npm and use Python for the local server. Input your xpubs in the first step.

That quick chain of transactions isn’t exactly hiding anything. Just moving coins around like that wastes fees. It’s not hard to trace for someone experienced.

Yeah, that’s my address. So the scammer’s address is bc1qergs08g635azsy6fnfggnpqs2hpme6k8vkzv0s, right?

You might’ve been scammed. The transaction you received was replaced. Just remember, unconfirmed transactions might never get confirmed, so be careful.

Can you see the transaction on block explorers as unconfirmed? If it’s from Feb 18, it’s unlikely it’s still in the mempool unless someone’s continuously rebroadcasting it. What’s your transaction ID?