5 sats \ 4 replies \ @chairman_pretense 14 Mar \ parent \ on: In 5 years will you be making more on-chain transactions or fewer? bitcoin
Multisig transactions are larger, so will also increase the fee. Well worth looking into so you can consolidate and futureproof your stack.
Ah didn’t realize that impact. 165k sats to consolidate in the next 6 blocks ouch. I’ll keep watching
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If you take a look at mempool.space and the predicted next block template, you can filter by transaction type for consolidations. You'll see you're not alone - it's painful but hopefully not something you'll need to repeat frequently.
Stacking in a lightning wallet then swapping for onchain etc. in future will help avoid running into the same problem.
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Thanks yeah I’ve been monitoring that site . Ordinals have obviously had a big impact on this.
I DCA daily and send to cold storage at a certain amount so I assume I’ll keep consolidating down to one UTXO. Once ore twice a year? Are there issues with just having one UTXO on chain?
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The main issue as I understand it is privacy, and whether or not you want to mix coins from different sources.
Let's say you have some non kyc sats you earned or bought p2p, it would be sensible to keep those utxos separate from your KYC exchange bought stash.
And even if your whole stack is fully KYC from an exchange, the argument for multiple utxos (let's say, low single digits) is that you don't disclose the value of your whole stack to someone who receives a payment from you. Of course, you could improve forward privacy of a single big utxo by using a coinjoin payment - but again, at added cost.
Lots of pros and cons to weigh up!
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