The issue is, there's currently no user here in Bitcointalk that reported their experience with mempool.space's accelerator.
It would be great to have some legitimate feedbacks.
I am not going to spend transaction with low fee and then pay to mempool.space to accelerate it, will be a waste of money and to be honest, I think, it doesn't need any legitimate feedback, it's mempool.space after all and this service will work as advertised.
AFAIK, their accelerator isn't fully open to the public yet [the feature in question is there, but as soon as you create and verify your account, they'll put you on a waitlist (almost one week and counting...) and that means you can't even top up your account (unfortunately)].
Good information! I didn't know if it still wasn't fully open to the public yet. I created this thread because I saw accelerate button when I was checking one of my transaction and since it was calculating acceleration fees for every transaction, I thought it was widely ready to use. Good point again, I'll edit my ANN post.
I hope they add LN payments for that, the whole thing is a bit messy for those accelerators, if you can't send or receive money because you paid a low fee and now you need to pay a higher fee to get a payment though to get that previous one confirmed it turns to
funny situations like this one:
Imagine you have some hosted wallet on an exchange, the dumb mofos send your withdrawal to your wallet with 10sat/b and now you need to accelerate it, you only have BTC there so you make another payment to mempool.space but again, the idiots send the tx with 10sat/b. So you need to accelerate the tx that should have paid for the acceleration
This business of accelerating transaction will dive down when we all support full RBF. Then, everyone will be able to speed up their own transaction without paying additional fees to these companies. Today the problem is that many people still make transaction from wallet that doesn't support RBF.
So how much do we save by using this service?
You are nto saving by using this service. There are times when you don't have enabled RBF and you need to accelerate your transaction. The problem is that every accelerator asks you for enormously high fees and mempool.space offers very competitive prices compared to them.
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