Quote from: BitMaxz on February 27, 2018, 11:25:18 PM

I don't believe that this time i saw that the fee drop to 20 sat per byte. I thought that its bug but i tried to test sending few bitcoin few hours ago and my fee is too low, I paid almost 18sat/byte check my transaction here
https://blockchain.info/tx/224f6d675f2062319daf896537bad6519eedaf26ab2e4b0b0f62453408b7a103
And my transaction was confirm in few minutes i think 15 minutes or around 30 minutes.

What do you think could be the reason is it because of lightning network or it is because of low transaction traffic?
Or there are lots of people are mining bitcoin?

18 sat/byte is still overpaying under the current circumstances.

It's not because of the Lightning Network. There's not much mainnet LN activity and no major services have adopted it yet. Block generation time is very close to the 10-minute interval target, so it's not hash power increasing either.

It's mainly because of low transaction volume across the network. Here's a few reasons why volume may have dropped:

Quote from: squatter on February 23, 2018, 02:16:17 AM

I think the drop in congestion is a combination of multiple factors: 1) the market dying down lead to less deposit/withdrawal activity on exchanges, 2) wallets are improving their fee estimation algorithms, 3) exchanges are batching transactions and implementing Segwit, 4) it's probable that a significant spam attack has ended.