Fee estimation can be tricky to get right when you're building wallet software.

Also just learned you can change the direction of the blocks on mempool.space. sweet now it makes sense in my stupid head.

This is the one true issue that divides Bitcoiners, which is why Mempool let’s you reverse the order. Nobody knows what the default is

White paper shows Satoshi’s view

the current block is advancing ... into the past 😅

It's only because we've been trained to read from left to right. It's cultural rather than a reflection of reality. When they implemented the ability to switch the direction, I could see that it felt more correct but I was also already used to the default direction. I had to revert back to the def...

Arabs, Jews, and some other groups read from right to left.