I’ve come to the conclusion that few estimates on chain are one of the single biggest flaws in every wallet design, and people’s brains using those wallets are equally fucking broken.

How hard would it be if during the use of the transaction UI, you could have a small pop-up hover window that gave you mempool.space estimates in real time and ENCOURAGED you to put in your custom fee based on that? I mean, whatever software people are using for on-chain TXs is fucking them, and frankly everyone else by creating illusory competition.

Do miners benefit from developer’s laziness and incompetence? Yes. I’m a miner and I get that. But I’m an ethical miner and I use on-chain TX’s and it’s crazy that we even have to have RBF or CPP because developers do a poor job of fee estimating.

I love developers but they are often the last people to understand what the real world is like around them.

/rant