Hmm - block txn fees have gone up over the last 12 hours on all blocks - hmm I wonder if that's the sign of a price rise?

It figures! I was just going to consolidate my mining payouts...
So what fee would you guys recommend since I'm using Bitcoin Core to consolidate ~0.05
BTC if you were in
no rush to get it confirmed?
Also, I noticed when I imported my mining address that Bitcoin Core created 3 different addresses in my wallet--each starting with a different character (e.g. 1, 3, b)...
Does that mean I could consolidate my
BTC from one to another of the three
even though they were all generated from the same private key?
I always do pretty close to the minimum and check the box to change the fee later on. A few months ago when it was so crazy, it would sometimes take 3 to 4 weeks but eventually would go through. You can check minergain at
and look at the 1 week amount. According to the last stats, the mempool is still low at 3.6 Mb, so should still confirm pretty quickly.