Is another stress test running?
There was a small spike, but I dont think it was an attack or stress test. Looks more like higher usage.
Really? Then this is the normal use. Probably coming from the high price of bitcoin. Maybe non-Bitcoiners flow into the market because they think that the price will go up even further now?
Though it shows that the 1MB is not enough and that there is not enough time.
I sent yesterday 4 transactions, 3 went through, 1 is hanging still. I wonder when it will confirm.
I would like to know where should i look at when determining if a stress test is going on AND to find out which fee to use to get your transaction go through. I would like to give easy tips for my escrow users.
I prefer ->
https://statoshi.info/dashboard/db/transactionsnow that my node can no longer handle all TX, it can only give you a rough picture ->
http://213.165.91.169/There is a site that shows you fee stimates as well, but I cant remember the URL atm. Its cointape.com you listed below.
No. For one bc.i (same as my node now) restricts which transactions they accept. Its also possible that there are 2500 "legit" transactions waiting for a confirmation. Bitcoin is still used differently around the world which results in times where there are more TX. Like a rush hour.
Next thing is cointape.com. You can see if an attack goes on, though it is only possible to find out which fee to use for no problems, if you have a standard transaction. Which is one input in your transaction and 2 outputs. Target address and either change address or the address the funds are sent from. Of course any other works too but that would be standard. Though it is not userfriendly at all because it shows fees in satoshi per byte, which is something you have to be knowledgeable for.
It gives you a recommendation in satoshi per byte. You can roughly estimate 10 byte base + 180 bytes per input and 34 byte per output. Depending on the wallet you use it might not be possible to know how many inputs are used though.
It would still be helpful. Maybe i should send the guys from cointape an email suggesting that they could set up a simple calculator. Though then again, only some people would be knowledgeable enough to know how many inputs their transaction will have.
No, the blue line is the number of unconfirmed transactions. If its constantly high there has been spam in the past. If its increasing over a longer period there is currently spam going on. Keep in mind the 3rd graph for malleated TX. The more red you see the more TX are malleated.
That sounds like a good way to let noobs know if a spam attack goes on. If the blue line is on top then it might be the case.
So how would you give tips about finding out if a spam attack goes an AND to know which fee to chose to not be hold in limbo with your transaction? And no, i don't consider simply throwing high fees around as the best solution.
IMHO the best solution is to run core as it estimates the fee based on the current state of the network. I know of no other wallet that does this. For every other wallet you have to either go the easy route and take a rough rule of thumb that might result in a "too high" fee or do the estimate yourself everytime. I would argue that its not worth anyones time to check different pages for 10-15 minutes in order to safe a few satoshi in fees.
Youre right. With core there should be no problem.
And yes, it's probably not worth to check much. Though at least it should be important to check if spam is going on at all. Not that someone sends a transaction with standardfee into the spamattack.
:D:D
futur is unpredictable.
