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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Transaction fee has gone up by 10x during the last two weeks
by
partysaurus
on 17/05/2019, 05:55:56 UTC
I have noticed that the transaction fee has gone up tremendously during the last two weeks. I am using Blockchain.com wallet, and until two weeks back I was paying somewhere between 1-3 Satoshi per byte for my transactions. But now the default fee in Blockchain.com has increased by more than 10 times, to around 40 Satoshis per byte. And I checked bitcoinfees.earn.com as well, and according to it, the fee needed for instant confirmation is around 220 Satoshi/byte.

I am not saying that at current levels this fee is unaffordable. But what if there is another 10x increase in the transaction fee? Are you willing to pay 2,000 Sat/byte for instant confirmations?




yes i have noticed that to, and the time it takes for it to clear gone up alot too, had to wait 6 hours for my last transfer. tryed a higher fee and still had to wait 2 hours. thats not very fun Smiley miss the days when a transfer took one hour the most lol.