Looking at my situation, I have a bunch of UTXOs that are .0004 BTC and up, so my fears of everything turning to dust are not as dire as I thought.
Before I opened this topic, it would have been dust:
Not so long ago, more than 600 Satoshis/byte was needed to have any chance at a fast confirmation.
If that happens again, you'll just have to wait it out.
I am thinking of holding out waiting for something like a fee rate of 6 sats and just get it done. There are 3 UTXOs that are below .0004, one is .00008, I'll make sure I don't burn it.
As long as you're not in a hurry, that works. I'm still waiting for lower transaction fees myself.
Exchanges tend to overcharge their customers, so it's not like they care about being thrifty.
Many companies overcharge their customers, but wasting money still costs them money.
Consolidations are going to take a while. I noticed
bc1qwkpdjeatdwrpv4vu4mj84ee6vkn96vdz2drfsn is filling many blocks consolidating 0.000049999 BTC inputs at 7.28 sat/vbyte. The transactions all have >1000 inputs, weigh about 75 kvbytes, and send 0.05 BTC. The address received 8.6
BTC in total, so that makes about 170 large consolidation transactions (assuming all inputs are the same size, it's hard to see that many inputs on a block explorer).
How did this address get all those inputs? It came from transactions
like this one, which paid $20 at 199 sat/vbyte for something that looks like Ordinal dust spam. Maybe the 4999 sats were a payment for some "service" related to the Ordinals? I don't know, but someone no doubt earned a lot of money from this.
