Update Post “2021-04-20-high-fees-and-transactions-pending-what-to-do”

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As could be predicted a more mature fee market started to develop in this cycle, and we are witnessing a natural competition for block space. Think about block space as another very scarce property of the network, where participants are competing to get their transactions in.
As could be [predicted a more mature fee market](https://bluewallet.io/Preparing-for-war-how-was-2019-and-a-glimpse-of-the-future-72637ffe58eb/) started to develop in this cycle, and we are witnessing a natural competition for block space. Think about block space as another very scarce property of the network, where participants are competing to get their transactions in.
As I write this my bitcoin node is rejecting transactions below the 12 sat/vb mark, the network is full, the next block target is 200 sats/vb. Essentially, it is not looking good, so let's take a look from the user perspective on what can be done to mitigate this and save some satoshis at the same time.