When you go to open some channels today and fees are $44 and you see this… 
Discussion
Just wait and open the channel on another day 🤪
what happend? did i miss something?
Trying to find out too.
Prob just a mix of things (pools pumping fees [for whatever reason], [possibly] Mt. Gox payouts, inscription / ordinal nonsense, etc.
Those large, uniform size block transactions are the typical sign of someone cramming tons of bullshit jpegs into the chain.
Turns out I was wrong. Someone’s creating tons of same size consolidation transactions. Rumors are it’s from OKX and they are auto outbidding themselves to get into blocks… 🤣
Someone might be getting a bad employee review, lol
OKX is consolidating some of their UTXOs paying north of 500sat/vB.
Block space is finite, just as it is should be. But holy batman, that's expensive.
all those big uglies seem to be consolidation txs. What is the use case there? Is it known? To me the numbers just don't jive. Why would it be worth burning that much corn to get these particular txs thru?