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I made a manual transaction that I did not put enough of a fee on to be processed. I can’t do RBF as the transaction is complicated. It has been in the mempool for a while now and I was wondering if it was possible to pay a miner to mine it specifically and ignore the lack of fees. I remember this being a thing when the fees got out of control in 2017ish era and was curious if there is a way to still do this. People were paying the miners directly with credit cards to avoid spending the obscene fees at the time. Google is not helping as any search of miners and fees just brings up endless results talking about how fees work.
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If you have the keys to any of the transaction’s outputs (e.g., a change output), then you can do a CPFP (child pays for parent). It’s effectively exactly what you described: offering (all) miners a monetary incentive to mine the low-fee transaction.
Search for Bitcoin transaction accelerator. I have not used them but remember seeing https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ a long time ago.
You could offer money but it would be pointless. The miner still has to find the nonce and there is no way you can guarantee he will get there first. In fact the probability is very low. If another miner finds the nonce first then your miner has to start over again using the newly validated block.
You pay the miners via transaction fees. The mempool is just that – a pool. If you have higher transaction fees, you’re more likely to be included in the next block.
you are just throwing good money after bad. The miner can’t guarantee when they will be able to mine your transaction, not unless he’s got a very large slice of the mining pie.
Its better to just wait, sooner or later your transaction will get verified. Just next time don’t be a cheapskate and put in a fee!! If you are not sure how much to put, check this site [mempool.space](https://mempool.space) to get an idea.
Do you have any of the coins as change? You could potentially spend the change with a large fee to entice miners to mine both the initial parent transaction and the child transaction.
The answer to this question is no
Can you do a double-spend ?
Send the transaction again with a higher fee, cancelling out the original TX