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Re:Someone pays $500k fee to send $1,865 by viraptor on Monday September 11, 2023 @04:46PM (#37473471)
That's not how it works. You can't guarantee where the fee goes. It's assigned pretty much randomly to some miner or a pool.
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Re:Someone pays $500k fee to send $1,865 by lgats on Monday September 11, 2023 @04:56PM (#37473587)
Unless the transaction is only advertised to the miner they intend and they wait until that miner finds a block?
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Re:Someone pays $500k fee to send $1,865 by viraptor on Monday September 11, 2023 @04:59PM (#37473618)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37473536
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