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by CameronNemo 2541 days ago
Can you explain how the miners can price discriminate against certain domains? Seems like the network fee would need to be identical for every concurrent transaction.
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I don't know exact details, but if it works like bitcoin miners can refuse to put renewals in blocks if the fees is not high enough.
In which case you can just wait until there are less transactions waiting to be confirmed, driving the price up (it's a renewal, so you have plenty of time to complete it).
You can't wait to renew, or someone who's willing to pay the price will steal your domain.
I'm pretty sure you have a time period during which you can renew the domain.