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Re: Bitcoin transaction confirmed within 20 minutes
by
LuanX3
on 24/05/2017, 23:44:54 UTC
OK with all the posts about transactions fees and transaction holds etc .. thought I'd post my experience ..

I have just transferred 2 Bitcoin from my Kraken trading account to my blockchain wallet ... cost of transaction: 0.0005 bitcoin so actual coins received in wallet 1.9995 ... 4 confirmations received within 20 minutes (19 minutes to be exact)

Personally I was expecting maybe a day for the transaction to be completed lol (especially with all the scary posts on the forum) so 20 minutes was pleasantly surprising.

LOL, it's sad that we are celebrating 20 minute txns this day and age, maybe it's time to implement SegWit dammit .  But I am happy for you, this is rare occurrence nowadays Wink unless you want to pay ten percent on a ten dollar transaction.

He got lucky or krken placed a higher fee than 0.0005. Actually fees are not calculated by how much you transact, but how many inputs and outputs are there. Kraken, like other sites, asks their users to pay a fixed amount in fees and they will likely put a 150-250 sat/kb fee, which will be 1-5 blocks. Luckily you got in the 1 block.