I saw one newbie in the Bitcoin Discussion board complaining about the fees. And it looks like the difficulty has dropped significantly,
Yesterday, in three separate cases blocks were mined after more than 1 hour of delay.. So this got me thinking, that maybe scammers are going to exploit this one and put up a website to somewhat accelerate the transactions. We all know that during the height in 2017, many services has been offered here, but I high doubt that it is effective, unless you have direct connections to mining services. Anyways, here are some scam websites as far as bitcoin transaction accelerator is concern.
Phishing site: http://bitcoin-transaction-accelerator.com/accelerator/
The sample transaction id I put is from the scammers themselves, just look at the bitcoin address,
Transactions 921
Total Received 17.63153023 BTC
Total Sent 17.62703662 BTC
Final Balance 0.00449361 BTC
Lots of people have been falling for this trick, asking for
0.001 BTC. I highly doubt that they really did help you out accelerating your transactions here. Same bitcoin address being used.
Second one, they step it up, using viabtc
http://viabtc-transaction-accelerator.com/accelerator/
Bitcoin Address: 3NYKHbX3zRbcZeASxjZmb4bpF8kZytnuvi
Another one:
http://bitcoin-tx-transaction-accelerator.com/
Just a gentle nudge to every one here, don't trust this kind of so called accelerator. You can used
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h to check you clogged the network and see what is the best fee, depending on your needs.