I love scanning through mempool.space for people paying ridiculous fees. No idea why.
Anyone else?
Discussion
Institutions, traders, exchanges, mistakes, lack of knowledge...
Yep that’s basically it
Yes, I do this often also. And I'm amazed by the outrageous fees commonly being paid especially on larger TXs.
It is utterly fascinating to contemplate the human scenario behind any random transaction flowing thru the mempool. A singular movement of money worthy to enshrine in the pristine immutable first layer, shrouded in mystery and sinking slowly into the vault of continuous confirmation.
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$383 is spent from a segwit utxo holding $90,485,616 A fee of $1.16 is paid.
Perhaps Elon just ordered dinner.
Very modern version of "people watching"
guilty