Is there a tool to find public nodes that are still storing an unconfirmed transaction? Something like that could have been a help in the story below, since mempool.space can’t be added as a node for wallets (unless you are a sponsor) nostr:note1dwdece6umgdrng8l0gghzfm022vtulk3hvm5k9vqy6uy66v9y02qaa9nat
Lately I’ve been fucking around and been finding out.
I had an unconfirmed #bitcoin transaction from more than a month ago that was sent to me from a non-kyc exchange. I had set the fee way too low based on nostr:npub1cyh2mhmvjgplma5de0muydkt0uk6hlynpn7gas4r6xc6zu9utufsststls (my mistake, I trusted, but did not verify - I rectified this by building nostr:npub17q7l84qnggcyyrxl0t9mxhuk5f2zgfpyd2c99w3ycmlvdfx57emqazk5dk and nostr:npub1u7lcmtfkpq50q2ym0d975xsm628td4xk2gh6zlu40cxlhqu770dslk7jgm myself).
I decided to see whether the fees would come down. After a couple of weeks I told myself I would fix the situation with a CPFP transaction. Thinking I would do this when the fees would come down at least a little bit, the node of the exchange eventually dropped my unconfirmed transaction…
The only node - that I could find - that was still showing my transaction was mempool.space. nostr:npub18d4r6wanxkyrdfjdrjqzj2ukua5cas669ew2g5w7lf4a8te7awzqey6lt3 offers an acceleration service since a while. It’s not cheap, but it was my best bet, until I figured out I could contact the exchange to RBF the transaction.
The support team was amazing and RBF’ed my transaction. The fees were a bit higher then I was hoping for, since the fee environment was relatively high when they came around to RBF my transaction, but at least my transactions is finally confirmed after many weeks!
Lessons learned about the #mempool that I never knew before
✅ Nodes store unconfirmed transactions for 14 days by default (correct me if I’m wrong) or until they are purged based on fees
✅ Nodes can change the default storage period (shorter or longer)
✅ Nodes can refuse to purge unconfirmed transaction - mempool.space does this, that’s why their memory is much higher than the limit 1.63 GB / 300 MB and why it was the only node that still had my unconfirmed transaction
This morning I received a phone call from one of my friends whom I orange pilled this bear market ! When he started stacking sats I gifted him nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl and showed how to set it up! Of course he haven’t done it! Now he is like: “bro I have over 3 #bitcoin on nostr:npub1cashappn03s3cl2ljsdntv0v28e2um5lgx4vjctqjt23pcwzjhsqmtdg5l can you help me to withdraw it to my wallet?”
Then we figured out that the limits on CashApp are low and we can’t withdraw it in one transaction. Gotta take a time!
Since we approaching the bull market I highly encourage all of you to withdraw all of your coins from exchanges ! The faster, the better ! 
Good choice with the SeedSigner 🙂
Unfortunately, there will always be gullible people to be found
Do you mean in general or for projected you are working on?
Feliz navidad, Roberto! 🌟
No guarantees, but I’m having a great experience with nostrudel.ninja. Make sure you have your data backed up with nostrnet.work or metadata.nostr.com, just in case
Not a great analogy, since the corn will be filled with 💩
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Here’s hoping you haven’t jinxed it 🤞😜
I really love your nutritious food notes like:
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Err, other way around. You can only cash out your bitcoin ETF shares for fiat, not for the equivalent in bitcoin
Cash creates means buying a bitcoin ETF share with cash and in-kind means exchanging bitcoin for a bitcoin ETF share
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn’t - Irwin Schiff
Made to Stick - Chip Heath
Range (Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World) - David Epstein
The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson
Whats’s Your Problem? - Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
Couldn’t get it down to five 😅
