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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Merits 6 from 2 users
Re: Future of testnet3 network.
by
pooya87
on 04/05/2024, 06:20:46 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (4) ,ABCbits (2)
Testnet fees are now higher than Bitcoin fees. I'd say that's a win!
The only thing weird here is that if you use the same tool to see fees on which network is higher, you get a different results.
Blockcypher reports higher fee on mainnet compared to testnet 0.00069 BTC/KB vs 0.00032 BTC/KB
mempool.space reports higher fee on testnet compared to mainnet 25 sat/vB vs 47 sat/vB

Sometimes these fee estimators either have bugs or use different methodology that returns different fee estimation. I believe mempool.space is more accurate though.