The Difficulty in Estimating V-rays and Selecting the Right Fee Rate

The Chaincode Decoded segment returns and we jump into the deep end of the mempool.

• Child Pays for Parent (CPFP) (2:15)
• How miner evaluate fee rates (4:34)
• Why is it hard to estimate fee rates? (6:03)
• How do exchanges estimate fees? (8:00)
• Will the mempool empty again? (9:23)
• Miner/pools and the need for a high fee environment (11:04)
• Replace by Fee (RBF) (14:05)
  - BIP 125
• Mempool eviction and the problems it can cause (19:04)
• Anchor Outputs (20:50)
• Package Relay (21:06)
• Ways to use the blockspace more efficiently (22:15)
  - blockchain.com implements Segwit
  

Thanks to Caralie for the sound engineering.