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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Transaction fee has gone up by 10x during the last two weeks
by
b3llsf1l3s
on 18/05/2019, 04:01:20 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?


in cases like this, the increase in fee transactions also has an impact on the increase in bitcoin prices, so that every wallet purchase, sale and transaction in which all these things require fees makes it natural, I suppose, even a 10x fee increase will not affect as long as the price also go up