oh okay, i see now. this was really informative, thanks to all for the help guys. 
so i should just stick with sending my mining rewards to my exodus wallet then?
p.s. apologies for all the long posts Kano. my bad still very new to this and to the bitcoin forum. but learning (and enjoying it here)
I don't know anything about exodus. But as long as you control your keys, then yes. so i should just stick with sending my mining rewards to my exodus wallet then?
p.s. apologies for all the long posts Kano. my bad
still very new to this and to the bitcoin forum. but learning (and enjoying it here) The biggest thing to keeping transaction fees low, is the timing of your transaction. Check the site I mentioned previously and gauge when you get can get a smaller transaction fee. Right now you could get one through fairly quickly with 15-25 sats/byte if you had done it yesterday when we were hitting the blocks with lots of mining fees you would have had to put out 200-250 sats/byte to get it through quickly.
It it's averaging 13.5+ then yaw up for some higher fees if you need to transact.
If it's averaging anything above 14+ then your out of luck and will need to pay very high fees.