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Topic: Bitcoin transaction fees (in sats/kb). Sunday, Saturday are best to move BTC (Read 2728 times)

legendary
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The situation looks even better this morning. At the moment I am writing this post, there are less than 500 unconfirmed transactions according to what https://mempool.space/ is showing. A 1 sat/vByte is all that is needed today. I hope this lasts.
legendary
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Farewell o_e_l_e_o
It's Sunday, around 15 UTC and you have chances to enjoy very low fees.

As of writing, you can get a confirmation in next 1 block if you use a fee rate at 2 to 3 satoshi/ (v)byte for your transaction. Total size of mempool from the tip to 2 sat/ (v)byte is less than 0.77 vMB.

Check the mempool at https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,24h
legendary
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Self-proclaimed Genius
-snip-
Though, even with that enabled the total is wrong.
I think I get where your confusion with the total is.
In "Johoe's Bitcoin Mempool Statistics", the numbers you see in each fee rate range is already the total of the ones on top of each range.
So for example, the value in "1+" is the total size of all transactions from 1~2000+ in the graph.

What's been weird in the site since the update is the seemingly stuck <1sat/vB transactions when you enable to 0+ minimum flag.
But we're getting out of topic, you can start a new thread if you want to continue the discussion about that specific mempool statistic site.
member
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Cool, didn't know about the minimum parameter.
Though, even with that enabled the total is wrong.
legendary
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Merit: 6080
Self-proclaimed Genius
If that's the case it should show also the 0+ stats line. As it is, the numbers just look wrong.
A few months back, before the redesign, it looked correct.
-snip-
I noticed that too.
With the updated version, when you try to force the minimum to 0, you'll see that there are a lot of accumulating
<1sat/B transaction in his mempool: jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,3m,weight,0

But based from this: /jhoenicke/mempool/blob/master/web/queue/mempool.js
He's using the default mempool setting so there shouldn't be any <1sat/B txn in his mempool, it must be a bug in the site or server.
member
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If that's the case it should show also the 0+ stats line. As it is, the numbers just look wrong.
A few months back, before the redesign, it looked correct.

How do you know, by the way? Did check the source code?
legendary
Activity: 3038
Merit: 4418
Crypto Swap Exchange
When choosing the non-default BTC mempool on Johoe's site, the hover table strangely shows a wrong "total".
Though not a big deal. Just need to mind instead the "1+" line above it.


Non-default mempool doesn't strictly enforce standardness in terms of the minimum mempool fees, the disparity arises with the fact that the graph doesn't show transactions that pays a fee of 0 - 1 satoshi. Since default implementation enforces 1+sat/vbyte, there is no disparity in the total. It doesn't matter because the default puts it at 1 sat/vbyte and is also what most miners enforce as well.

member
Activity: 301
Merit: 74
When choosing the non-default BTC mempool on Johoe's site, the hover table strangely shows a wrong "total".
Though not a big deal. Just need to mind instead the "1+" line above it.

jr. member
Activity: 51
Merit: 3
Network is so congested right now 80 sat/byte + fees. How long till it gets back to normal???
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o

Today, I give you the update for difference between weekly median of transaction fee and the daily median of intraday transactions.

For the daily median, I run it for days of week: Monday - Sunday.

Then, I calculate the difference (in percent). All results below are for difference (%)

This new analytical method excludes the short- or mid-term effects of bitcoin rises / falls that in turn potentially increase bitcoin transaction fees within a few days, few weeks.


Box plot
  • The median values are vertical lines inside boxes (for each Days of week)
  • Only 3 days have medians below 0: Monday, Saturday, and Sunday.
  • It is a confirmation for weekend effects and the appearance of Monday with negative value somewhat shows the market need Monday to warm up for rest days of week
  • With working days: Tuesday to Friday, the highest median is on Thursdays.

Bar chart
  • Values in bar chart are means.
  • Only 2 weekend days have negative values: Saturday (- 3.01%) and Sunday (- 7.9%).
  • Monday is slightly above 0, at 0.13 %.
  • The peak is still on Thursday at 6.85%

I did not (but I might) censor data set to recent years as I believe results will be almost the same.

You can combine this update with the hourly analysis above and make weekly, hourly plans for your bitcoin transactions.

Raw results
Code:
Summary for variables: diff_pc
     by categories of: dofw

     dofw |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Sunday |     507.0      -7.9      18.7      -5.4     -15.7      -0.3    -100.0     120.9
   Monday |     507.0       0.1      15.7      -0.7      -5.4       5.1     -98.1     131.4
  Tuesday |     507.0       5.1      21.6       1.6      -3.3       8.5    -100.0     255.9
Wednesday |     508.0       6.5      22.3       2.4      -2.4      10.3     -51.0     231.0
 Thursday |     508.0       6.8      19.1       2.8      -1.6       9.7    -100.0     178.5
   Friday |     507.0       5.1      18.6       1.8      -2.5       9.3    -100.0     162.3
 Saturday |     507.0      -3.0      19.3      -2.1     -10.5       3.2    -100.0     130.3
----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total |    3551.0       1.8      20.1       0.2      -5.3       6.4    -100.0     255.9
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
Weekend and also holidays. You have chances to enjoy lower fees.

As of writing, you can get a confirmation in next 1 block if you use a fee rate at 3 satoshi/ (v)byte for your transaction. Total size of mempool from the tip to 3 sat/ (v)byte is less than 1 MB.

If you are not in a hurry, wait for a few hours till around next 24 hours (or a bit longer), I think your transactions will get confirmations even at the fee rate of 1 sat/(v)byte. Check the mempool at https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,24h


Happy holidays, everyone!


Edit for this small analysis.
I played with the data set today and I can confirm it.
  • Each day, hours from 13 UTC to 22 UTC is the most terrible period to move bitcoin. Because its median of hourly fees are higher than median of all-24-hours each day from 2.4% to 33.9%. The rise begin since 12 UTC time.
  • Each day, hours from 23 UTC to 7 UTC time are best to move bitcoin with cheapest fee.
Methodology:
  • median_day: the median of transaction fee for all 24 hours every day.
  • median_hrdate: the median of specific hour within each day
  • diffpc = (median_hrdate - median_day)/median_day*100

Raw data
Code:
    +-----------------------+
     | rank   hr      diffpc |
     |-----------------------|
  1. |    1   13    33.91756 |
  2. |    2   14    26.39759 |
  3. |    3   16    24.86809 |
  4. |    4   15    22.69867 |
  5. |    5   18    22.69101 |
  6. |    6   17    20.83675 |
  7. |    7   19     17.3279 |
  8. |    8   20    17.23884 |
  9. |    9   21    3.767935 |
 10. |   10   22     2.36229 |
 11. |   11   12    .7935516 |
 12. |   12   10    -1.17058 |
 13. |   13    2   -2.019091 |
 14. |   14   11   -3.211063 |
 15. |   15    8   -4.933663 |
 16. |   16    9   -5.961604 |
 17. |   17    0   -9.296452 |
 18. |   18   23   -9.901987 |
 19. |   19    6   -10.01764 |
 20. |   20    7   -11.85577 |
 21. |   21    4   -11.99892 |
 22. |   22    3   -12.54986 |
 23. |   23    1   -13.05078 |
 24. |   24    5   -18.52437 |
     +-----------------------+

This part is for hourly fee, but for all days in this year.
Code:
Summary for variables: feeperkb
     by categories of: hr

      hr |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       0 |    2140.0   34366.3   35900.9   20389.1   10648.9   47919.9       0.0  257092.0
       1 |    2169.0   31738.9   32021.4   20497.5   11595.8   40873.2       0.0  256272.0
       2 |    2144.0   35262.7   33591.5   23386.6   13155.4   47311.4       0.0  275091.0
       3 |    2218.0   30540.3   30137.1   20669.0   11934.7   37680.5       0.0  280884.0
       4 |    2139.0   30864.3   29414.5   20457.0   11769.6   40051.0       0.0  246312.0
       5 |    2216.0   28780.9   27879.6   18980.7   11589.5   34882.8       0.0  303836.0
       6 |    2097.0   31120.2   31085.3   20046.8   11515.5   39140.0       0.0  246045.0
       7 |    2162.0   31728.8   30206.8   21364.8   12235.8   42497.0       0.0  247493.0
       8 |    2184.0   34858.9   34490.9   21743.5   12173.4   46857.6       0.0  249996.0
       9 |    2139.0   35982.9   34497.9   23887.9   12465.2   49436.6       0.0  232711.0
      10 |    2150.0   36605.6   35136.4   23973.3   12366.2   49729.1       0.0  260038.0
      11 |    2175.0   37262.3   35684.8   24664.1   12595.9   50795.9       0.0  250145.0
      12 |    2146.0   40706.9   37370.8   28833.1   13489.4   56808.6       0.0  266947.0
      13 |    2180.0   52372.6   42798.4   41836.3   19332.3   74290.4       0.0  340589.0
      14 |    2132.0   47275.3   41043.6   34309.0   17192.5   67794.1       0.0  342649.0
      15 |    2192.0   46111.7   39591.8   33790.2   16981.5   65084.8       0.0  279020.0
      16 |    2183.0   48142.2   41745.7   33990.4   16798.3   70057.9       0.0  295485.0
      17 |    2236.0   48759.5   43286.3   35645.0   16962.7   70143.3       0.0  309492.0
      18 |    2170.0   47029.4   42725.5   32838.4   16265.4   67715.8       0.0  289470.0
      19 |    2152.0   47406.2   43053.2   33724.3   15503.6   67292.0       0.0  272109.0
      20 |    2185.0   45984.9   42112.1   31402.0   14616.1   66583.9       0.0  279584.0
      21 |    2270.0   41938.1   39354.7   27447.0   12973.7   62083.4       0.0  307249.0
      22 |    2181.0   41181.6   39385.3   27091.4   12695.9   57919.7       0.0  253167.0
      23 |    2183.0   35448.4   35125.8   22265.8   11282.7   49712.4       0.0  252706.0
---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Total |   52143.0   39251.6   37543.7   25619.8   13231.9   55277.9       0.0  342649.0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
It was finally confirmed. For future reference, how much size is safe to get transaction confirmed within a few hours?
No one can give you an exact answers for all situations. it depends on mempool conditions that changes very fastly.

Check mempool condition there: jochen-hoenicke.de
One hour means about 6 blocks and with that third chart, one block takes 1 MB (maximum from tip of the mempool). So one waiting hour will be roughtly 6 MB from tip of the mempool. It is applied for constant condition of the mempool. In reality, it is changing and what you can get is an estimation only.

As said, because of uncertainty of mempool, you always have to prepare for bad situations by turn on the RBF -- Replace-by-Fee for your transactions.

As of writing, 10:20 PM UTC time, 6 MB from tip of the mempool will be for the rate of 5 sat/ byte but not all waiting transactions at 5 sat/ vbyte will be confirmed all after next 6 blocks (even if mempool stays flat next one hour). Total size of waiting transactions with 5+ sat / vbyte is 8.615 MB.
jr. member
Activity: 51
Merit: 3
Thanks for detailed response. Now the size for my fee rate is 24 MB. Is there a chance it would be confirmed this weekend?
It has decreased to about 15MB right now. If the mempool continues to clear at this rate [1], your transaction has a fairly decent chance of confirming within a few days. That is, unless the price of Bitcoin changes drastically and more people starts to sell again.


[1] https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h
It was finally confirmed. For future reference, how much size is safe to get transaction confirmed within a few hours?
legendary
Activity: 3038
Merit: 4418
Crypto Swap Exchange
Thanks for detailed response. Now the size for my fee rate is 24 MB. Is there a chance it would be confirmed this weekend?
It has decreased to about 15MB right now. If the mempool continues to clear at this rate [1], your transaction has a fairly decent chance of confirming within a few days. That is, unless the price of Bitcoin changes drastically and more people starts to sell again.


[1] https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h
jr. member
Activity: 51
Merit: 3
My transaction ...... is stuck since 2 days even though I sent with 17 sat/byte fee Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
It will be stucked for a while. As of writing, from the tip of mempool to the fee rate you used, total size is about 51 MB. If you are lucky, that transaction will be confirmed in the coming weekend. If you are unlucky, you will have to wait till the next weekend. The second scenario is what I guess you will have.

  • Good thing: the fee rate is high enough to help your transaction get confirmation after a while of waiting.
  • Bad thing: it is marked as NO Replace-by-Fee so that you can not boost the transaction (if you sudden are hurry).
  • Lesson from it: Try to use a non-custodial wallet and turn on the RBF option. It helps you to replace and boost your transaction with higher fee
Thanks for detailed response. Now the size for my fee rate is 24 MB. Is there a chance it would be confirmed this weekend?
hero member
Activity: 2366
Merit: 793
Bitcoin = Financial freedom
^Yup, using ETA was the problem I guess so fellas can use Mempool option and move the bar to your desired state. Maybe we can see Mempool size getting decrease a bit so this weekend maybe the best time for anyone to move funds because again the coming monday we can see huge traffic in the mempool again either if there is surge or dump in bitcoin's price
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
Yes I had been using the default one which is ETA, is the only thing giving inaccurate calculation? But I am not sure about it.

Since when I found they are giving over killing fee, I moved to the website which I mentioned and it is easier for me to set the required fee using static feature which is the second one after ETA guess. Mostly I won't make any transaction when the network is congested so static works fine for me.
It is your problem, as said.

ETA method gives you the estimate fee that your transaction will probably be confirmed within X blocks. Default, X is 5 blocks. You can change the X parameter by slip the bar through 5 values: 25, 10, 5, 2, and 1 block(s).

If you look at the mempool with https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,24h or see screenshot above. When mempool is flat between fee rates, ETA will give you over killing fee. It gives you acceptable fee rate if mempool is stucked.
hero member
Activity: 2366
Merit: 793
Bitcoin = Financial freedom
I don't know what caused your problem with inaccuracy from fee rate estimate in Electrum (wallet for Android). As I emphasized, make sure you choose the Mempool option for your mobile wallet. Default, the wallet is use ETA for fee estimation that often gives you over killing fee. Is it the option you have on your mobile wallet?
Yes I had been using the default one which is ETA, is the only thing giving inaccurate calculation? But I am not sure about it.

Since when I found they are giving over killing fee, I moved to the website which I mentioned and it is easier for me to set the required fee using static feature which is the second one after ETA guess. Mostly I won't make any transaction when the network is congested so static works fine for me.
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
My transaction ...... is stuck since 2 days even though I sent with 17 sat/byte fee Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
It will be stucked for a while. As of writing, from the tip of mempool to the fee rate you used, total size is about 51 MB. If you are lucky, that transaction will be confirmed in the coming weekend. If you are unlucky, you will have to wait till the next weekend. The second scenario is what I guess you will have.

  • Good thing: the fee rate is high enough to help your transaction get confirmation after a while of waiting.
  • Bad thing: it is marked as NO Replace-by-Fee so that you can not boost the transaction (if you sudden are hurry).
  • Lesson from it: Try to use a non-custodial wallet and turn on the RBF option. It helps you to replace and boost your transaction with higher fee
jr. member
Activity: 51
Merit: 3
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
A pc or laptop is must required equipment for sure when they want to become a crypto investor but we can't expect everyone to hold on such device where every they go. There are people who always in travel so they keep in touch with their smartphone for most of their crypto related works.
True.

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Electrum is good wallet to find and set the required fee with many features as you stated but they are not accurate all the times which I experienced it personally. Many times I end up paying more fee than what is actually needed for my transaction to get included in the next block that is why I moved to mempool analyzer even when making transactions from my smartphone as well.
I don't know what caused your problem with inaccuracy from fee rate estimate in Electrum (wallet for Android). As I emphasized, make sure you choose the Mempool option for your mobile wallet. Default, the wallet is use ETA for fee estimation that often gives you over killing fee. Is it the option you have on your mobile wallet?
hero member
Activity: 2366
Merit: 793
Bitcoin = Financial freedom
As a crypto investor, a computer is a must equipment with which you will have a better screen than mobile.

If you only use mobile (Android), an alternative is Electrum wallet. You can get the fee rate from mempool with fee estimation (click on Send, tap on the Star icon). There are 3 options for the fee estimation: ETA, Mempool and Static. You have to choose Mempool. Then, scroll the bar to change target from 0.1 MB from tip to 10 MB from tip and which each level, you will see a different fee rate (sat/byte).

From a few times I observe it, it gives correct fee rate (you can double check with jochen-hoenick.de site.

If you are cautious of loss if you store your bitcoin on mobile, simply create a test wallet and don't store any bitcoin inside. Use the test wallet to get fee rates.
A pc or laptop is must required equipment for sure when they want to become a crypto investor but we can't expect everyone to hold on such device where every they go. There are people who always in travel so they keep in touch with their smartphone for most of their crypto related works.

Electrum is good wallet to find and set the required fee with many features as you stated but they are not accurate all the times which I experienced it personally. Many times I end up paying more fee than what is actually needed for my transaction to get included in the next block that is why I moved to mempool analyzer even when making transactions from my smartphone as well.
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
Of course from the site you mentioned we can get clear insight of Mempool however for a normal joe it maybe hard for to understand when they visit from smaller screen devices that is why I mentioned some good alternative which atleast shows up high, medium, low priority required fee with block sizes and fees so it maybe allow us to choose the right fee even when we are not in front of our PC.
As a crypto investor, a computer is a must equipment with which you will have a better screen than mobile.

If you only use mobile (Android), an alternative is Electrum wallet. You can get the fee rate from mempool with fee estimation (click on Send, tap on the Star icon). There are 3 options for the fee estimation: ETA, Mempool and Static. You have to choose Mempool. Then, scroll the bar to change target from 0.1 MB from tip to 10 MB from tip and which each level, you will see a different fee rate (sat/byte).

From a few times I observe it, it gives correct fee rate (you can double check with jochen-hoenick.de site.

If you are cautious of loss if you store your bitcoin on mobile, simply create a test wallet and don't store any bitcoin inside. Use the test wallet to get fee rates.
hero member
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Bitcoin = Financial freedom
For anyone who wants to know the real time recommended fee can use this site : https://mempool.space/

which gets updated in real time and also I am personally using this in the recent times to find exact recommended fee which is mostly inaccurate on lot of reputed fee calculating websites.
I would like to recommend jochen-hoenicke.de that I mentioned here many times. With that site, you can have three different chats for Mempool: Unconfirmed transaction counts, Pending transaction fee in BTC, Mempool size in MB.

Honestly, I usually check the third chart at bottom (Mempool size in MB) but there is more convenience if you want to get more details with 2 other charts.

Another plus point of that site compares to mempool.space is the color scheme used for fee rate bands are very well-designed. It ranges from cold colors (represent low fee rates) to hot colors (represent high fee rates). The color schemed for rate bands on mempool.space is weird and I am not like it. It is mixed from hot (at low fee rate), to cold (average fee rate) and back to hot (high fee rate).


Of course from the site you mentioned we can get clear insight of Mempool however for a normal joe it maybe hard for to understand when they visit from smaller screen devices that is why I mentioned some good alternative which atleast shows up high, medium, low priority required fee with block sizes and fees so it maybe allow us to choose the right fee even when we are not in front of our PC.
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
For anyone who wants to know the real time recommended fee can use this site : https://mempool.space/

which gets updated in real time and also I am personally using this in the recent times to find exact recommended fee which is mostly inaccurate on lot of reputed fee calculating websites.
I would like to recommend jochen-hoenicke.de that I mentioned here many times. With that site, you can have three different chats for Mempool: Unconfirmed transaction counts, Pending transaction fee in BTC, Mempool size in MB.

Honestly, I usually check the third chart at bottom (Mempool size in MB) but there is more convenience if you want to get more details with 2 other charts.

Another plus point of that site compares to mempool.space is the color scheme used for fee rate bands are very well-designed. It ranges from cold colors (represent low fee rates) to hot colors (represent high fee rates). The color schemed for rate bands on mempool.space is weird and I am not like it. It is mixed from hot (at low fee rate), to cold (average fee rate) and back to hot (high fee rate).

hero member
Activity: 2366
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Bitcoin = Financial freedom
It's weekend and today is Sunday that usually gives you opportunities to move your bitcoin at lower fee rate.
For anyone who wants to know the real time recommended fee can use this site : https://mempool.space/

which gets updated in real time and also I am personally using this in the recent times to find exact recommended fee which is mostly inaccurate on lot of reputed fee calculating websites.
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
It's weekend and today is Sunday that usually gives you opportunities to move your bitcoin at lower fee rate.

There is less than 2.6 MB in mempool and you have probability to get confirmation for your transaction within next 3 to 6 block with fee rate at 1 sat/vbyte. To make sure if you are in hurry, you can choose the fee rate at 2 - 3  sat/vbyte. If you are not in a hurry, there is chances for 1 sat/vbyte.

In the next days till the end of December, you will probably see wild movements of bitcoin so make sure to take advantage of low fee rates today.

jr. member
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My transaction is stuck since last 12 hours even though I sent at 17 sat/byte fee. https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/4fbf4240b65fe6c371a0eaf615aa0caaae95245c1c4e5b35d83d4a66da47c984

Edit: It just got through.
legendary
Activity: 2310
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Farewell o_e_l_e_o
Maybe for people already familiarized with the stats and values and terminology, it is not a problem, but for me, it would be extremely handy to have a brief description of each axis values meaning. I mean, on those plots where that can be applied.
I will include variable notes and might (or might not) include label variables for yaxis. With some plots, the plot titles are enough and there is no need to mess up plots with y labels.


Weekend to come soon and I have very good news for you!

Mempool was cleared 3 hours ago now its total size is 5.1 MB.

The climb of bitcoin recent hours put some hurry people use high fee but I won't think it will last long (based on the weekend effects) and very low transaction counts in the last 2 weeks. Check it there: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,2w

Mempool even was cleared on some non-weekend days, almost clear at least once for every day.
hero member
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I have a suggestion for your (OP's) plots.
Maybe for people already familiarized with the stats and values and terminology, it is not a problem, but for me, it would be extremely handy to have a brief description of each axis values meaning. I mean, on those plots where that can be applied.
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
What to expect next few days?
  • Bitcoin price will be stable

Can you lend me your crystal ball?  Grin

I don't really get how you can make conclusions about the $-value of BTC by looking at the difficulty.
There might be some correlation, but you can't really derive the future price action by looking at a (relatively normal) difficulty correction.
No. I don't forecast price of BTC here (if there is forecast it will be one-way forecast). The thread is all about fee and to expect cheaper fee, the conditions are stable price of BTC and difficulty adjustment. The network has the second one, a big -16% adjustment. What to wait is BTC price. If thing goes well, fee rates might be cheaper.

I probably chose a bad word (expect). It should be wish or hope (maybe). Just my incompetence in English.  Smiley
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What to expect next few days?
  • Bitcoin price will be stable

Can you lend me your crystal ball?  Grin

I don't really get how you can make conclusions about the $-value of BTC by looking at the difficulty.
There might be some correlation, but you can't really derive the future price action by looking at a (relatively normal) difficulty correction.
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You can see the transaction count (figrue on plot *1000 as a multiplier) gradually falls back and remember that the next round of difficulty adjustment to come very soon (within next 2 days). 228 more blocks and difficulty will be adjusted. Latest difficulty adjustment is on block #653183 and the latest found block is #654971.

Difficulty

The network difficulty was adjusted ~ 7 hours ago with the fall of -16.04992% in difficulty between block 655199 and 655200. It is a big adjustment. The second biggest decreasing adjustment in history of bitcoin network.

The biggest one is 9 years ago (in 2011) between 2 following blocks and percent of decreasing adjustment is -18.03. Impressive for today adjustment.

What to expect next few days?
  • Bitcoin price will be stable
  • Mempool will be clearer
  • Fee rates will be lower (your stucked transactions might be confirmed)

I will update this plot with date for today and its big adjustment later. If you are interested in with the sneak peak here, please check The history of Bitcoin difficulty adjustment (in percent)
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Today is Sunday and here you go with cheaper fee rates! Mempool is clearer and I expect to see it will be clear to the fee rate at 10 satoshi/(v)byte in next 12 hours.

I give you the mixed plot with different statistics for block size (daily with median, p25, p75), transaction count (median), difficulty, and fee per kB (median).

You can see the transaction count (figrue on plot *1000 as a multiplier) gradually falls back and remember that the next round of difficulty adjustment to come very soon (within next 2 days). 228 more blocks and difficulty will be adjusted. Latest difficulty adjustment is on block #653183 and the latest found block is #654971.


If you check the mempool condition last 6 month, current mempool is not the worst. The worse thing is more people set up or accept higher fees for their transactions.
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Another reason why fee is cheaper in weekends is block size is smaller in weekend days. Data and box plots for all time (2009 - 29 Oct 2020) or since 2017 so far show that fact.

So to sum up, on the weekends, bitcoin network usually has:
  • Smaller block size.
  • Less transaction counts.
  • Cheaper transaction fee rates

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It is a bump! (for the coming weekend)

I hope that newbies who don't understand how bitcoin transactions are confirmed and how mempool changes will take this bull run of bitcoin price and transaction fee to learn. It is a valuable live course and it does not happen too regularly.

Read OP and a few posts in this thread as well as the quoted post, then observe mempool to see how it goes next few days or even up to 2 weeks.

In the last 30 days, there are 3 periods in which mempool size exceeds 50 MB (first in early days of October, second around 21 October at 53 MB -- the purple arrow, and the third is now with 62 MB in mempool. In percent, there is an increase of 17% in mempool size compares to what it was on 21 October 2020. After that day, mempool was dipped and almost clear.

I am not over pessimistic but nothing is too bad like a catastrophe here and now. Cheesy
  • Institutional and weekend effects
  • A bit stability of bitcoin next few days
  • We can have better fee rate. It is my expectation but if it happens, people should move or consolidate their bitcoin when fee is cheaper before mid of November.

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,30d
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We are now somewhere in between 2-3 Sat/vByte. Looks like in the last 8 hours, it wasn't the perfect time for 1 Sat/vByte transactions. There are constantly 15-20MB of unconfirmed 1 Sat/vByte transactions in the mempool. It looks like 2 Sats is the goal for today.  
Currently, it is a matter of 2 fee rates: 1 and 2 satoshi(s)/ (v)byte. If Bitcoin price won't have big changes and won't cause panic, I expect to see mempool will be dipped to 1 satoshi/ (v)byte today, in next few hours. The matter is will mempool be completely cleared? Maybe or maybe not, I don't know (it is a game of luck).

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,8h


Update for 26 Oct 2020, 3:47 AM UTC. Mempool is clearer and you can get instant transaction within next 1 block at 2 satoshis/ (v)byte. I am expecting to see mempool will completely cleared for all current waiting transactions at 1 satoshi/(v)byte around next 2 hours.
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For the rate at 1 satoshi/ (v)byte, you need to have luck.
We are now somewhere in between 2-3 Sat/vByte. Looks like in the last 8 hours, it wasn't the perfect time for 1 Sat/vByte transactions. There are constantly 15-20MB of unconfirmed 1 Sat/vByte transactions in the mempool. It looks like 2 Sats is the goal for today.   
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It's the weekend and today is Sunday!

Mempool was cleared since yesterday after stacked up recent days. As of writing at 3:04 AM UTC, you can instantly move BTC at 3 satoshi/(v)byte. If you check on https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,24h, you can see that the total size of waiting transactions for fee rates from 3+ satoshi/(v)byte is at 0.257 MB (< 1 MB). Therefore, you can get first confirmation within next 1 block with fees at 3 satoshis/ (v)byte.

I am expecting lower fee rate -- from 1 to 2 satoshi/ (v)byte -- because on Sunday institutional effects usually become smaller and fee can be cheaper. I believe that you can have chances to move your bitcoin at 2 satoshi/ (v)byte later today!

For the rate at 1 satoshi/ (v)byte, you need to have luck.

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1 Block has size ~ 1MB.
Again, we need to make a distinction here between megabytes and virtual megabytes. A block will be 1 megabyte in virtual size, but can be up to 4 megabytes in physical size.

If you use Jochen Hoenicke's graph, for example, then each block will take a maximum of 1 megabyte of transactions off the graph since the transaction sizes are displayed in virtual bytes.

On the other hand, if you use a site like https://mempool.space, blocks are displayed with their physical size, which is almost always greater than 1 megabyte unless the mempool is empty.
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Is this possible way for dealing with not urgent transactions?
Obviously. 1 sat/vbyte is the "cheapest fee" you can choose. Whether you want to consolidate your inputs, or sweep your funds into another wallet, or other kind of transactions that you believe are not urgent and you can wait for weeks, 1 sat/vbyte regardless of the mempool condition is a good choice.

Yes, for legacy addresses the smallest possible fee is 1 sat/vbyte, for segwit addresses it is appox. 0.7 sat/vByte, for bech32 addresses even less
You used vByte for SegWit, so the minimum should be 1sat/vByte, any lower will be non-standard.
It will only show as ±0.7sat/Byte if it's based from the raw bytes like what blockchain.com's explorer or wallet/clients that don't support SegWit are displaying.
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    Yes, for legacy addresses the smallest possible fee is 1 sat/vbyte, for segwit addresses it is appox. 0.7 sat/vbyte, for bech32 addresses even less
    bench32 addresses are Segwit addresses. I guess you misunderstood bench32 addresses.

    With Segwit address, your transaction fee will be calculated from total virtual size

    virtual size = total weight units/ 4

    Total weight unit = bytes (of witness data) * 1 + bytes (of non-witness data)*4

    • Witness data takes 1 weight unit for each.
    • Non-witness data takes 4 weight units for each

    The fee rate is in satoshis/ virtual byte. If you are able to reduce your transaction size, your transaction fee will be reduced. It is why Segwit address can help you.


    If you use fee estimations in wallets, you need to choose mempool rather than ETA. ETA usually gives you over-high fee rate because it uses the estimated blocks to have confirmation for your transactions.

    Mempool option is better because wallet will use mempool size to estimate fee rate for you. 1 Block has size ~ 1MB. Mempool size changes quickly and look at mempool size can help you to avoid over-use of high fee than needed.

    See Techniques to reduce transaction fees

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    Patient spending
    Very useful for non-urgent transactions. Not useful for urgent transactions

    Spenders who can patiently wait for their transactions to confirm can take advantage of variations in the feerate necessary to achive confirmation. For example, sometimes several Bitcoin blocks are produced in quick succession, raising the effective supply of block space by several multiples; other times, demand drops off, such as fees on Sunday being on average 20% lower than fees on Friday in Q4 2017. Looking at data from the widely-used fee estimator included in Bitcoin Core, we can see fee savings of 90% or more possible, with around 50% being easily obtainable by many patient spenders.
    You can compare their figures for difference between fees in Sunday and Friday and compares with mine. I gonna give you update on this soon.

    The chart and corresponding table shows that if you are patient enough to wait for up to 6 hours, you can get up to 55% saving in fee.[/list]
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    Is this possible way for dealing with not urgent transactions?
    Obviously. 1 sat/vbyte is the "cheapest fee" you can choose. Whether you want to consolidate your inputs, or sweep your funds into another wallet, or other kind of transactions that you believe are not urgent and you can wait for weeks, 1 sat/vbyte regardless of the mempool condition is a good choice.

    Yes, for legacy addresses the smallest possible fee is 1 sat/vbyte, for segwit addresses it is appox. 0.7 sat/vbyte, for bech32 addresses even less
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    Is this possible way for dealing with not urgent transactions?
    Obviously. 1 sat/vbyte is the "cheapest fee" you can choose. Whether you want to consolidate your inputs, or sweep your funds into another wallet, or other kind of transactions that you believe are not urgent and you can wait for weeks, 1 sat/vbyte regardless of the mempool condition is a good choice.
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    For not urgent transaction (like collecting several inputs into one) you can easily post your transaction with 1sat/byte and wait... usually within a week the transaction is confirmed. Is this possible way for dealing with not urgent transactions?
    Hours ago:
    If you are in emergency and need urgent transaction, you need to choose a fee rate with total size of waiting transactions are less than 1 MB. In my previous post (hours ago), you can make urgent transaction even at 1 satoshi/ (v)byte. It will be confirmed in next one block or if you are not lucky enough (because mempool suddenly rises a little), you will have to wait for 2 or 3 blocks later. To make sure you will get first confirmation next 1 block, you can choose 2 satoshi/ (v)byte.


    Now:
    Look at mempool, in order to get confirmations next 1 block, you should choose fee rate at 3 or 5 satoshi/ (v)byte. It is only to make sure you can be able to avoid sudden increases in mempool size. For me, I will set up my fee rate at 1 and wait for next few hours. I bet it will be confirmed.  Tongue

    Check it at https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,2h (for 2-hour window). You can choose narrow or wide window at top right corner of that site.

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    -snip-
    Hurry up guys!

    For not urgent transaction (like collecting several inputs into one) you can easily post your transaction with 1sat/byte and wait... usually within a week the transaction is confirmed. Is this possible way for dealing with not urgent transactions?
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    It's the weekend and today is Saturday!

    Mempool was cleared about 5 hours ago and now if you check on https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,24h, you can see that the total size of waiting transactions with 2 satoshis+ in fee rate is at 0.29 MB, even less than 1 MB. You can get fast confirmation in next one or two blocks with fees at 2 satoshis/ (v)byte.

    Tomorrow, Sunday, I expect to see the mempool will be clearer and you will have chances to move your bitcoin at 1 satoshi/ (v)byte. Hurry up guys!


    For transaction counts over different hourframes, today I run with data again and once again, statistics show there are some hour-frames have less transactions than the other hour-frames. It means even in the weekends, there are some hour-frames you usually have cheaper fees.
    • Period: 2020-01-01 00:03:05 2020-09-25 23:55:47 UTC time
    • Blocks: 610691 - 650003

    See details below
    Code:
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median    hour_frame   median      p25    p75      iqr   min    max |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     1 - 6 UTC     1863      994   2507     1513     1   3712 |
      2. |           2    7 - 12 UTC   2231.5   1359.5   2602   1242.5     1   3908 |
      3. |           3    19 - 0 UTC     2281     1291   2740     1449     1   3809 |
      4. |           4   13 - 18 UTC   2389.5   1831.5   2753    921.5     1   3797 |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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    Mempool has cleared right now members(Very few unconfirmed transactions in it). Time to move your bitcoins at 1 sat/byte if you can  Wink


    https://mempool.space/




    https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,2h
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    ~snip~

    Of course. It always depends on the amount of transactions waiting to get confirmed.
    It is just that usually there are less transactions on sunday, and therefore the mempool gets empty which means the transaction fees to get a fast confirmation decreases.

    You don't have to wait for sunday to transact. You can always broadcast your transaction with a fee of 1 sat/vB. It might even get confirmed faster. And if it doesn't, it usually will on sunday.
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    So, transaction fee is all about low traffic in bitcoin transfer or transactions. I never thought of this since I am really fan of altcoins but now I am starting to look forward on the best coin which is bitcoin. I downloaded already my bitcoin wallet through phone(mobile wallet).

    Even if you are altcoins enthusiast, you can easily understand that when crypto market experience huge traffic after halving or not theres always increase in transaction fee.


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    I downloaded already my bitcoin wallet through phone(mobile wallet).
    What mobile wallet did you download? Keep in mind that not all of them will allow you customize the fees. The informations provided in the OP will be more useful if you are not going to use custodial wallets. They calculate the fees for you and categorize them into "slow, normal, fast" but they are usually set at a higher rate.

    Non-custodial mobile wallets like Electrum and Mycelium allows you to set a fee.
    Thats correct but people are advised not to keep huge fund in mobile and web wallet because they are vulnerable to attack.

    Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto and started in 2009 when its implementation was released as open-source software. Watch this Grounded Download PC Game


    Your reply is off-topic. Please read the forum rules and regulations or else your maybe ban.
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    I downloaded already my bitcoin wallet through phone(mobile wallet).
    What mobile wallet did you download? Keep in mind that not all of them will allow you customize the fees. The informations provided in the OP will be more useful if you are not going to use custodial wallets. They calculate the fees for you and categorize them into "slow, normal, fast" but they are usually set at a higher rate.

    Non-custodial mobile wallets like Electrum and Mycelium allows you to set a fee.
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    Mempool began to be cleared about 8 hours ago and now if you check on https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,24h, you can see that the total size of all waiting transactions is at 0.75 MB, even less than 1 MB. You can get fast confirmation in next few (one or two) blocks with fees at 1 satoshis/ (v)byte.

    It is a chance to move your bitcoin at 1 satoshi/ (v)byte. The dump and very narrow price movements of bitcoin (last 2 days) give you such cheap fee, this time. Hurry up guys!
    So, transaction fee is all about low traffic in bitcoin transfer or transactions. I never thought of this since I am really fan of altcoins but now I am starting to look forward on the best coin which is bitcoin. I downloaded already my bitcoin wallet through phone(mobile wallet).

    It could be wiser to read details here about bitcoin and as I about to move some though it was only small amount then I think I need to be conscious on days or time when it will be a good time to transfer. As seen in the data made by OP shows that sunday is really a nice day to transfer bitcoins. However, if I am right to my conclusions base on the graph that OP's presentation that the Bars for every days of the week shows small gaps even in sunday. Meaning that it could still be possible to get high fees when doing transaction for sundays.
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    Do they keep as profit a greater proportion of what their users during times of low blockchain activity?
    They pay higher fees all the time as mentioned above by tranthidung to ensure that customers are getting faster confirmation. I never faced any late confirmation with Binance. Well, never checked how much they pay in term of current fee, I think they pay as per the recommendation for getting confirmation in the next block.

    i haven't checked Binance but most of the exchanges are already deducting a lot of fee from the users accounts (which is usually a fixed amount too) when they want to withdraw so they have to pay a higher fee to justify that unfair withdrawal fee while taking most of it as their own profit.
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    Do they keep as profit a greater proportion of what their users during times of low blockchain activity?
    They pay higher fees all the time as mentioned above by tranthidung to ensure that customers are getting faster confirmation. I never faced any late confirmation with Binance. Well, never checked how much they pay in term of current fee, I think they pay as per the recommendation for getting confirmation in the next block.
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    As a service provider, it is reasonable for them to give their customers fast withdrawal with high fee, at least to make sure withdrawal transactions will be confirmed within next 1 to 6 blocks (ideally 1 to 3 blocks). As said repeatedly, mempool size changes fast and they have to take the most safely option for them -- but mempool does not change exponentially within minutes, it is so rare to see such situations.
    This is no excuse, I do withdraw from Bustadice and their withdrawal fee is dynamic. It literally changes every minute mimicking the changes in the mempool. The highest I have ever paid in Bitcoin fees for instant withdrawal is about 250 Bits (0.00025 BTC) and this was last month during weekdays when bitcoin fees are high. As for the other option of slow withdrawals (withdrawals are not instant but are processed in 24 hours) the fees are in the range of 40 bits (0.00004 BTC), sometimes even 10 bits. This is also dynamic.

    Most of the so-called big exchanges are just hiding behind the withdrawal fee thing to profit more. They will charge you 0.0005 BTC but you will see only 0.0002 BTC paid as fee in your transaction through a bitcoin block explorer.
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    Binance and most other exchanges I have used charge 0.0005 BTC per BTC withdrawal regardless of the Bitcoin transaction fee. They never lower the amount when fee is cheap but I'm sure they will charge higher once tx fee get increased significantly.
    Yes, I'm aware of that. What I was asking was whether the fee they actually pay on their transactions in terms of sats/vbyte varies greatly depending on the mempool? Do they keep as profit a greater proportion of what their users during times of low blockchain activity?

    It is a shame why Electrum team have not yet updated their documentations for too long.  Undecided
    Probably because they are busy building new versions of Electrum and implementing Lightning support. The docs are on GitHub, so anyone can contribute if they want to update them - https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-docs
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    Binance and most other exchanges I have used charge 0.0005 BTC per BTC withdrawal regardless of the Bitcoin transaction fee. They never lower the amount when fee is cheap but I'm sure they will charge higher once tx fee get increased significantly.
    As a service provider, it is reasonable for them to give their customers fast withdrawal with high fee, at least to make sure withdrawal transactions will be confirmed within next 1 to 6 blocks (ideally 1 to 3 blocks). As said repeatedly, mempool size changes fast and they have to take the most safely option for them -- but mempool does not change exponentially within minutes, it is so rare to see such situations.

    Platforms mostly use batch payments for their customers. I don't know you have noticed it before but the kind of batch payment results (partially) in Pending status for your withdrawal. They need to collect bunches of withdrawals and make them into a batch. When the batch (with list of withdrawals) is finished, the Pending status will be changed to Paid/ Finished.

    Of course, Pending contains other things (KYCs, strange IP detections, suspicious withdrawals, etc.)


    In Electrum wallet, they call it as bulk payment [1]. The documentation is for old version of the wallet. It is a shame why Electrum team have not yet updated their documentations for too long.  Undecided

    [1] https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-do-bulk-payments-with-electrum
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    If you are not in hurry, I expect mempool will be cleared next few hours and transactions with fee at 1 satoshi/ (v)byte can be confirmed. Remember if you use fee at 1 satoshi/ (v)byte, you will have to see your luck, even when fee dips to this rate, it does not mean all transactions at this rate will be filled. You will have to wait for other chances, next days, or next weekend.
    I did manage to make a bitcoin transfer at 1 sat/byte about some 4 hours back. I didn't even wait for more than 30  minutes. All i did was first check out how the mempool looked like.



    How I wish Centralized Exchanges would decrease their Withdrawal fee too when the network is not busy.
    Because Centralized exchanges also profit from your withdrawal fees indirectly. They charge you excess so that they can take 80% of what you paid to their wallets.
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    Has anyone looked in to the fees big exchanges like Coinbase and Binance pay on their consolidation and withdrawal transactions? How much do they alter with the size of mempool? Obviously they charge the same flat fee all the time to their customers, but do they pay 1 sat/vbyte when they can and just pocket the rest as profit?
    Binance and most other exchanges I have used charge 0.0005 BTC per BTC withdrawal regardless of the Bitcoin transaction fee. They never lower the amount when fee is cheap but I'm sure they will charge higher once tx fee get increased significantly.
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    How I wish Centralized Exchanges would decrease their Withdrawal fee too when the network is not busy.
    If only they bother upgrade their software to determine withdrawal fee based on current mempool or specific time Tongue
    If only they batched their withdrawal transactions. If only they implemented SegWit. Hell, some of them still don't even let you withdraw to your own SegWit address, let alone use SegWit addresses for their own internal transactions.

    Has anyone looked in to the fees big exchanges like Coinbase and Binance pay on their consolidation and withdrawal transactions? How much do they alter with the size of mempool? Obviously they charge the same flat fee all the time to their customers, but do they pay 1 sat/vbyte when they can and just pocket the rest as profit?
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    You can also try your luck with 1 sats/vbyte right now. There's only around 4k unconfirmed transactions for now and if there's not a sudden spike in mempool the rest of that block should include your transactions.
    What? Really 1 sat? Deym never tried that before.


    To OP and everyone who contributed, thanks for posting the analysis here. This is really helpful and always makes me "back-off" whenever I see the recommended transaction fees on weekdays. Maybe the reason behind why weekends have lower transaction fees are whales and most people are taking an off or away from their work. I should keep this in mind. The difference may be not that much but that will still save some sats. I really do not understand the entire details of the charts but I get the whole picture.

    How I wish Centralized Exchanges would decrease their Withdrawal fee too when the network is not busy.
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    It is the weekend, guys.

    Check on https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,24h, you can see that the total size of waiting transactions with fees at 2+ is at 2.85 MB, very close to 1 MB. You can get fast confirmation in next few (one or two) blocks with fees at 2 satoshis/ (v)byte.

    If you are not in hurry, I expect mempool will be cleared next few hours and transactions with fee at 1 satoshi/ (v)byte can be confirmed. Remember if you use fee at 1 satoshi/ (v)byte, you will have to see your luck, even when fee dips to this rate, it does not mean all transactions at this rate will be filled. You will have to wait for other chances, next days, or next weekend.
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    What will happen when the network rate congests too badly though? I mean, I even sent a transaction with a fee of over 120 sats/vbyte but it got confirmed after 14 hours of long wait. Isn't that something weird? I mean, how can miners just relay high-fee blocks only and leave the lower ones and clog the network intentionally? Is it because the price spike of BTC? But that should rather trigger the fee to go down, no?
    Simple reason is because miners are not a charity and want to make money... and blocks have a finite amount of space... and miners have no real control over the time taken to find a valid block, due to the "luck" factor.

    It's basic "supply and demand". If the total size of "waiting" transactions >= max block size, then transactions with highest fee rates get priority... if new transactions are created at a rate higher than that at which transactions are being added into blocks, then the size of waiting transactions will easily outgrow the block size... and waits become longer. Then people start increasing the fee rates being paid and then those transactions with the lower fee rates get left behind as miners prioritise the higher fee rate transactions to maximise the returns from their mining.
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    What will happen when the network rate congests too badly though? I mean, I even sent a transaction with a fee of over 120 sats/vbyte but it got confirmed after 14 hours of long wait. Isn't that something weird? I mean, how can miners just relay high-fee blocks only and leave the lower ones and clog the network intentionally? Is it because the price spike of BTC? But that should rather trigger the fee to go down, no?
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    ...you can move your bitcoin at 2 satoshis/ byte, within next one block or two blocks (if you are very unlucky). There is only 0.24 MB in mempool for unconfirmed transactions with fee rates at 2+ satoshis/ byte.
    In that example where the mempool is only 0.24 MB, even a 1 sat/vbyte suffices. But I got your point that you want to make sure that the transaction gets confirmed in the next 1-2 blocks just in case there is a sudden spike.
    To save bandwith of people who have bad connections and give them better experience, I did not add a screenshot but here you go:
    o_e_l_e_o is right, I recommended 2 sat/ vbyte for people were in hurry and need their transaction get confirmation next one block. For the rest, they can use 1 sat/ vbyte fee and wait a little bit, see their luck, and so on. In reality, a few hours later, mempool was clear and 1 sat/vbyte transactions were all done, fastly than my expectation.
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    In that example where the mempool is only 0.24 MB, even a 1 sat/vbyte suffices.
    You misunderstand. 12 hours ago when tranthidung made that post, there was around 10 MB of unconfirmed transactions with a fee rate of 1 sat/vbyte, but very little in the way of unconfirmed transactions which paid more than 1 sat/vbyte. A fee of 1 sat/vbyte would put you over 10 MB from the tip, whereas a fee of 2 sat/vbyte would have put you within 0.24 MB of the tip.

    Now, however, the mempool has completely emptied for the first time in almost a month. 1 sat/vbyte is currently getting you confirmed within a couple of blocks at most. The automatic fee algorithms on wallets are still going haywire though, and forcing some people to pay in excess of 200 or even 300 sats/vbyte.
    legendary
    Activity: 2730
    Merit: 7065
    ...you can move your bitcoin at 2 satoshis/ byte, within next one block or two blocks (if you are very unlucky). There is only 0.24 MB in mempool for unconfirmed transactions with fee rates at 2+ satoshis/ byte.
    In that example where the mempool is only 0.24 MB, even a 1 sat/vbyte suffices. But I got your point that you want to make sure that the transaction gets confirmed in the next 1-2 blocks just in case there is a sudden spike.
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    You can also try your luck with 1 sats/vbyte right now. There's only around 4k unconfirmed transactions for now and if there's not a sudden spike in mempool the rest of that block should include your transactions.
    I know. My previous advice is for people who still need kinda fast transaction but still want to make it with cheap fees. There is difference in real fees with fee rate at 1 or 2 sat/ (v)byte but if in a hurry, pay a little more is acceptable.
    legendary
    Activity: 2170
    Merit: 1789
    You can also try your luck with 1 sats/vbyte right now. There's only around 4k unconfirmed transactions for now and if there's not a sudden spike in mempool the rest of that block should include your transactions.
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    Now, this weekend, on Sunday, as of writing, you can move your bitcoin at 2 satoshis/ byte, within next one block or two blocks (if you are very unlucky). There is only 0.24 MB in mempool for unconfirmed transactions with fee rates at 2+ satoshis/ byte.

    I give you the link to 2-weeks chart to help who don't understand can see an overview in last 2 weeks and how mempool has been cleared recent days. It is amazing guys.

    FOMO or panic always bring loses to you, even in transaction fee.

    https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,2w
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    Update

    In short:
    • It is time to move or consolidate your bitcoin, at low fees. I suggest you to use fee at 1 satoshi/ byte!
    • Fee now is cheap but I expect it will be cheaper on Sunday.

    Transaction counts over years
    There is a spike (all time high) in 2010, I don't know what happened in that year.  Roll Eyes
    Code:
          year |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
    ------------+-----------------------------------
           2009 |     32,490        5.07        5.07
           2010 |     67,920       10.60       15.67
           2011 |     59,627        9.31       24.98
           2012 |     54,526        8.51       33.49
           2013 |     63,433        9.90       43.39
           2014 |     58,865        9.19       52.58
           2015 |     54,321        8.48       61.06
           2016 |     54,851        8.56       69.62
           2017 |     55,928        8.73       78.35
           2018 |     54,498        8.51       86.86
           2019 |     54,232        8.47       95.32
           2020 |     29,959        4.68      100.00
    ------------+-----------------------------------
          Total |    640,650      100.00

    This week:
    • I don't release results on median fees over days of week and hourframes. Because they are medians, they are not changed after few days. I will update such stats each quarter.
    • Visual updates on temporary status on the network: Unconfirmed transaction count, Pending transaction fee in BTC, Mempool Size in MB
    Pay your attention on:
    • The plummet of unconfirmed transaction count from latest peak at 55086 to 7858 (as of image sreenshotting) ~ a 85.7% decrease.
    • Mempool size: a 43.1% fall (from 81.44 MB - latest peak -  to 46.36 MB)

    https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,1w
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    Yeap. Once again we have witnessed another weekend with weekend effects and fees are cheaper on Sunday than Saturday. There is no clear data interpretation on that but I thought it is because of delayed institutional effects before the weekend - it lasts till Saturday and almost disappears on Sunday.

    If you observer the unconfirmed transactions (as of image screenshotting), the total unconfirmed transactions is about 13k. The peak within last week is at 77726 on 17 July 2020. The mempool size even was clearer a few hours ago and you can also look further at the pending transaction fees in BTC.

    Keep it in your mind and try to take advantage of the weekend effect on bitcoin transaction fees!

    FOMO (in invest, trading, or moving your bitcoin) always have the same endings. Loses: Loses in capital, loses in fees!


    Source: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,1w
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    The current high fees on the network makes me curious on the whole picture in the year 2020. So I made it.

    • Observed data: 2009-01-03 18:15:05 to 2020-07-17 23:58:49 UTC time
    • Data for the analysis: in 2020 only
    • This week is not completed.
    • Transaction counts (in total) and transaction fees (in median) are lowest. Institutional effects, likely!
    • Last 3 months (May to July - incompleted) are worst in terms of median transaction fees
    • July's median transaction fee is ranked at the second highest position. It means in this year, we have still been in a second terrible month to move bitcoin
    • Some days of week in some months don't have a single empty block

    Distributions of transaction counts over days of week (all months)
    Code:
        +-------------------------------+
         |      dofw   transaction_count |
         |-------------------------------|
      1. |    Sunday             7440452 |
      2. |  Saturday             8047853 |
      3. |    Monday             8529230 |
      4. |   Tuesday             9029388 |
      5. | Wednesday             9068320 |
         |-------------------------------|
      6. |    Friday             9164270 |
      7. |  Thursday             9235457 |
         +-------------------------------+

    An overview on fees (in median) for each specific months
    Code:
        +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   month2     median        p25        p75        iqr   min       max |
         |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1   2020m1    11237.8    7974.35    15450.7    7476.35     0    240323 |
      2. |           2   2020m4    13039.5    8458.81    19066.3   10607.49     0    197133 |
      3. |           3   2020m2   14276.15    10302.6      19841     9538.4     0    251598 |
      4. |           4   2020m3    19106.9    11647.7    35121.6    23473.9     0    142473 |
      5. |           5   2020m6    19866.5    12690.8    30347.8      17657     0    123531 |
         |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6   2020m7    24357.8    15701.7    36416.1    20714.4     0   76476.4 |
      7. |           7   2020m5    52486.8   29246.55   83784.45    54537.9     0    205993 |
         +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Days of week all months
    Code:
        +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median        dofw     median        p25        p75        iqr   min      max |
         |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      Sunday   12990.55     8798.1    20518.5    11720.4     0   188742 |
      2. |           2    Saturday    14596.7    9338.52      24039   14700.48     0   251598 |
      3. |           3      Monday    16079.3    10333.9    27268.9      16935     0   186707 |
      4. |           4     Tuesday   18001.05   11664.85   30355.45    18690.6     0   189464 |
      5. |           5   Wednesday    19009.3    11701.1    33336.6    21635.5     0   240323 |
         |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      Friday      19721    11925.1    37541.6    25616.5     0   200909 |
      7. |           7    Thursday      20085    11967.6    37479.7    25512.1     0   205993 |
         +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


    Days of week each month
    Monday
    Code:
        +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median     dofw   month2    median        p25        p75        iqr       min       max |
         |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1   Monday   2020m1   11065.2    8280.35    14753.6    6473.25   1343.93   82029.4 |
      2. |           2   Monday   2020m4   12074.6    8105.71    16555.8   8450.091         0   82216.3 |
      3. |           3   Monday   2020m2     12826   9031.225    18244.6   9213.375         0   80336.2 |
      4. |           4   Monday   2020m3   16284.4      10623    31499.9    20876.9         0   85179.1 |
      5. |           5   Monday   2020m7   21091.3    14046.1    26860.3    12814.2         0   59413.9 |
         |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6   Monday   2020m6   21506.8    14749.4    30758.4      16009         0    113333 |
      7. |           7   Monday   2020m5     46640   27070.85   80173.45    53102.6         0    186707 |
         +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Tuesday
    Code:
        +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median      dofw   month2     median        p25       p75        iqr   min       max |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1   Tuesday   2020m1    12468.4   9224.685   17016.6   7791.915     0     82633 |
      2. |           2   Tuesday   2020m4    13149.7    8409.79   17968.5    9558.71     0   78876.4 |
      3. |           3   Tuesday   2020m2    14651.7    11026.2   20344.9     9318.7     0   90763.9 |
      4. |           4   Tuesday   2020m3    17838.5    11674.4     27421    15746.6     0     92957 |
      5. |           5   Tuesday   2020m6   24675.15   16409.85   35860.6   19450.75     0    123531 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6   Tuesday   2020m7    27131.7    19530.3   35742.3      16212     0   72278.5 |
      7. |           7   Tuesday   2020m5    56838.5    30809.7   84986.3    54176.6     0    189464 |
         +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Wednesday
    Code:
        +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median        dofw   month2     median        p25        p75        iqr       min       max |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1   Wednesday   2020m1    12112.1    8270.95      16659    8388.05         0    240323 |
      2. |           2   Wednesday   2020m4   14702.95    9699.57    21919.8   12220.23         0    197133 |
      3. |           3   Wednesday   2020m2    17091.3    12453.8      22552    10098.2         0   92302.1 |
      4. |           4   Wednesday   2020m3   20265.25    11716.7    41979.4    30262.7   702.706   85187.9 |
      5. |           5   Wednesday   2020m6    26878.4   16771.35   36902.95    20131.6         0   89510.2 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6   Wednesday   2020m7    29280.5    18526.7    40541.6    22014.9   1849.94   74139.4 |
      7. |           7   Wednesday   2020m5   56022.95    32666.1    90646.4    57980.3         0    197230 |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Thursday
    Code:
        +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median       dofw   month2     median        p25        p75        iqr       min       max |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1   Thursday   2020m1   11672.95   8504.435   16416.45   7912.015    821.18   81195.2 |
      2. |           2   Thursday   2020m2    16973.5    12197.8    22640.5    10442.7    1292.8   86109.2 |
      3. |           3   Thursday   2020m4   17212.05    11592.8    27691.6    16098.8         0    138973 |
      4. |           4   Thursday   2020m6      23297   11698.65   33280.95    21582.3         0   80548.4 |
      5. |           5   Thursday   2020m3    24512.8    13920.7    43091.8    29171.1         0   95171.9 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6   Thursday   2020m7   33261.25    21166.3   44209.15   23042.85         0   74246.5 |
      7. |           7   Thursday   2020m5    70633.5    42657.2     103595    60937.8   1490.91    205993 |
         +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Friday
    Code:
        +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median     dofw   month2     median        p25        p75        iqr   min       max |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1   Friday   2020m1    11769.7    8148.52      16228    8079.48     0    131115 |
      2. |           2   Friday   2020m4   15207.45    10764.7    20748.2   9983.499     0   82460.6 |
      3. |           3   Friday   2020m2    15607.7    11396.9    21536.8    10139.9     0   85322.6 |
      4. |           4   Friday   2020m6    20411.9    11973.7    30763.9    18790.2     0   75653.9 |
      5. |           5   Friday   2020m3   30268.85   15747.55   53790.45    38042.9     0    142473 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6   Friday   2020m7   31586.75      20852    45536.4    24684.4     0   76476.4 |
      7. |           7   Friday   2020m5    74851.5    47626.3    98965.3      51339     0    200909 |
         +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Saturday
    Code:
        +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median       dofw   month2     median       p25       p75        iqr       min       max |
         |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1   Saturday   2020m1    9883.97   7325.25   13309.5    5984.25         0   74514.7 |
      2. |           2   Saturday   2020m4   10240.65   6618.39   14418.6   7800.209         0   66849.5 |
      3. |           3   Saturday   2020m2    12847.9   9250.91   17031.5    7780.59         0    251598 |
      4. |           4   Saturday   2020m6    16473.6   11429.1   21654.1      10225         0    116532 |
      5. |           5   Saturday   2020m7    18815.3   11427.6     24077    12649.4         0   53423.3 |
         |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6   Saturday   2020m3   21083.85   12387.8   32841.2    20453.4   1147.92    102597 |
      7. |           7   Saturday   2020m5    44420.5   22714.4   69373.1    46658.7         0    189976 |
         +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Sunday
    Code:
        +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median       dofw   month2     median       p25       p75        iqr       min       max |
         |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1   Saturday   2020m1    9883.97   7325.25   13309.5    5984.25         0   74514.7 |
      2. |           2   Saturday   2020m4   10240.65   6618.39   14418.6   7800.209         0   66849.5 |
      3. |           3   Saturday   2020m2    12847.9   9250.91   17031.5    7780.59         0    251598 |
      4. |           4   Saturday   2020m6    16473.6   11429.1   21654.1      10225         0    116532 |
      5. |           5   Saturday   2020m7    18815.3   11427.6     24077    12649.4         0   53423.3 |
         |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6   Saturday   2020m3   21083.85   12387.8   32841.2    20453.4   1147.92    102597 |
      7. |           7   Saturday   2020m5    44420.5   22714.4   69373.1    46658.7         0    189976 |
         +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    Weekend to come so please consolidate your coins and / or move your funds to save fees. If you don't have need to move your coins, consolidate them instead (at 1 satoshi/byte).

    Look at below statistics for latest update and compare median transaction fees (in satoshis/ kB) on Sunday and Saturday to Friday:
    • Friday: 18471
    • Saturday: 14258 (22.8% cheaper)
    • Sunday: 12701 (31.2% cheaper)
    Remember they are for median fees over those three days of week. You can always save fees by consolidating/moving your BTC at 1 satoshi/byte.

    Check best hour frames there (1 - 6 UTC)

    Details
    Fees per kb
    Days of week
    Code:
        +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median        dofw    median       p25       p75        iqr   min      max |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      Sunday   12700.8   8690.33   20556.8   11866.47     0   188742 |
      2. |           2    Saturday   14257.6   9221.46   24028.1   14806.64     0   251598 |
      3. |           3      Monday   15810.1   10102.7   27392.7      17290     0   186707 |
      4. |           4     Tuesday     17296   11337.8   29133.3    17795.5     0   189464 |
      5. |           5   Wednesday   18283.3     11404   32239.9    20835.9     0   240323 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      Friday   18470.4   11586.7     35324    23737.3     0   200909 |
      7. |           7    Thursday   18698.7   11583.7   35223.6    23639.9     0   205993 |
         +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Code:
    . di (18471-14258)/18471*100
    22.808727

    . di (18471-12701)/18471*100
    31.238157
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    For specific days of week

    Transaction count
    Sunday
    Code:
        +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median    hour_frame   median   p25    p75    iqr   min    max |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     1 - 6 UTC      255    18   1028   1010     1   5944 |
      2. |           2    7 - 12 UTC      270    19   1150   1131     1   6144 |
      3. |           3    19 - 0 UTC      338    27   1277   1250     1   5866 |
      4. |           4   13 - 18 UTC      375    23   1541   1518     1   5787 |
         +---------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Code:
        +------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour   median   p25      p75      iqr   min    max |
         |------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      5      239    18      950      932     1   5944 |
      2. |           2      6      240    15     1042     1027     1   3789 |
      3. |           3     10      256    15     1103     1088     1   3527 |
      4. |           4      3    257.5    17     1067     1050     1   4968 |
      5. |           5      4      258    20     1022     1002     1   5682 |
         |------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      7      258    19     1024     1005     1   5593 |
      7. |           7      1    258.5    18     1062     1044     1   4342 |
      8. |           8      2      259    21    999.5    978.5     1   3846 |
      9. |           9      9      261    17     1124     1107     1   3499 |
     10. |          10      8      271    19     1153     1134     1   6144 |
         |------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11     11      285    22     1131     1109     1   5550 |
     12. |          12     23      297    22     1141     1119     1   5866 |
     13. |          13     12      298    22     1349     1327     1   5201 |
     14. |          14      0      319    26     1107     1081     1   3868 |
     15. |          15     14    328.5    18     1561     1543     1   3972 |
         |------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     22      333    31   1255.5   1224.5     1   3781 |
     17. |          17     21      338    24     1329     1305     1   4348 |
     18. |          18     19    361.5    30     1398     1368     1   3693 |
     19. |          19     18      367    27     1569     1542     1   5459 |
     20. |          20     13    368.5    18     1330     1312     1   3851 |
         |------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21     17      377    26   1567.5   1541.5     1   5787 |
     22. |          22     15      407    23     1717     1694     1   3856 |
     23. |          23     16      409    29     1559     1530     1   3912 |
     24. |          24     20      412    32     1415     1383     1   3732 |
         +------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Monday
    Code:
        +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median    hour_frame   median     p25      p75     iqr   min    max |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     1 - 6 UTC     1750   847.5   2442.5    1595     1   4043 |
      2. |           2    7 - 12 UTC   2403.5    1921   2691.5   770.5     1   3505 |
      3. |           3    19 - 0 UTC     2491    1875     2887    1012     1   3786 |
      4. |           4   13 - 18 UTC     2544    2075     2839     764     1   3653 |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Code:
        +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour   median      p25      p75      iqr   min    max |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      5     1525      699     2388     1689    14   4043 |
      2. |           2      3     1657      830     2408     1578    21   3109 |
      3. |           3      2     1664      738     2310     1572     1   3930 |
      4. |           4      1     1746      992     2520     1528    29   3665 |
      5. |           5      4     1856      819     2461     1642    57   3159 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      0     1910     1115     2627     1512     1   3786 |
      7. |           7      6     2009     1120     2549     1429     1   3469 |
      8. |           8     13     2065     1631     2552      921   894   3323 |
      9. |           9      8     2214     1845     2572      727     3   3059 |
     10. |          10      7     2296     1311     2613     1302    59   3172 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11     22   2319.5     1612   2760.5   1148.5    38   3781 |
     12. |          12      9     2394     1861     2625      764     1   3285 |
     13. |          13     11     2396     1929     2728      799     1   3505 |
     14. |          14     14     2446     2060     2702      642     1   3407 |
     15. |          15     23   2462.5     1731     2882     1151     1   3772 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     10     2471     2098     2677      579    87   3163 |
     17. |          17     21     2522     2046     2851      805   102   3560 |
     18. |          18     16     2578     2181     2870      689   216   3562 |
     19. |          19     12   2593.5   2276.5   2808.5      532   231   3243 |
     20. |          20     19     2640   2077.5   3014.5      937   425   3491 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21     18     2651     2192     2950      758     1   3565 |
     22. |          22     15     2663     2227     2835      608   212   3553 |
     23. |          23     17     2689     2338     2947      609   168   3653 |
     24. |          24     20     2699     2364     3009      645     1   3662 |
         +---------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Tuesday
    Code:
        +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median    hour_frame   median      p25    p75      iqr   min    max |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     1 - 6 UTC   2011.5   1146.5   2539   1392.5     1   3487 |
      2. |           2    7 - 12 UTC   2446.5     1849   2724      875     1   3729 |
      3. |           3    19 - 0 UTC     2456     1868   2858      990     1   3656 |
      4. |           4   13 - 18 UTC   2582.5   2164.5   2898    733.5     1   3685 |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Code:
        +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour   median      p25      p75     iqr   min    max |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      6     1761     1035     2384    1349    48   3205 |
      2. |           2      5   1774.5    959.5   2602.5    1643     1   3441 |
      3. |           3      4     1910      948     2448    1500    21   3265 |
      4. |           4      0   2115.5     1280     2620    1340     1   3572 |
      5. |           5      2     2140     1611     2538     927    40   3353 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      3     2147     1489     2605    1116    49   3243 |
      7. |           7      1     2177     1267     2670    1403    71   3487 |
      8. |           8     13   2189.5     1555     2572    1017   102   3448 |
      9. |           9      7     2281     1370     2643    1273     1   3272 |
     10. |          10     23   2301.5     1257     2827    1570    59   3629 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11      8     2336     1738     2630     892   184   3496 |
     12. |          12     22   2340.5     1842     2804     962     1   3536 |
     13. |          13     14   2489.5     2111   2782.5   671.5     1   3472 |
     14. |          14     12   2493.5   1892.5     2773   880.5     1   3539 |
     15. |          15      9   2496.5     1976     2722     746   470   3729 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     10     2513     2162     2736     574    80   3240 |
     17. |          17     11     2568     1933     2802     869     1   3451 |
     18. |          18     21     2571     2080     2899     819     1   3656 |
     19. |          19     19     2640     2211     2951     740     1   3548 |
     20. |          20     20     2654     2090     2961     871    42   3619 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21     15   2666.5     2363     2928     565     1   3685 |
     22. |          22     18     2668   2253.5   2948.5     695     1   3664 |
     23. |          23     16     2683     2205     2933     728     1   3328 |
     24. |          24     17     2783     2423     2980     557     1   3466 |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Wednesday
    Code:
        +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour   median      p25      p75     iqr   min    max |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      4   1873.5      911     2413    1502     1   3333 |
      2. |           2      6   1900.5   1103.5   2489.5    1386    55   3437 |
      3. |           3      3     1963     1008     2458    1450    25   3135 |
      4. |           4      2   2031.5     1255     2524    1269     1   3380 |
      5. |           5      5     2032     1350     2566    1216    64   3323 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      0     2157   1339.5   2678.5    1339     1   3630 |
      7. |           7      7     2222     1392     2688    1296    20   3288 |
      8. |           8     13   2242.5     1479     2638    1159     1   3202 |
      9. |           9      1     2293      982     2728    1746    32   3379 |
     10. |          10      8     2339     1661     2712    1051    33   3352 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11     10     2362     1718     2627     909     1   3261 |
     12. |          12     23     2388     1564     2858    1294     1   3642 |
     13. |          13     14     2515     2013     2816     803     2   3457 |
     14. |          14     11     2544     1920     2780     860     1   3514 |
     15. |          15      9     2553   2085.5   2835.5     750     1   3259 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     22     2591   2066.5     2865   798.5   152   3577 |
     17. |          17     12     2596     2244     2811     567   324   3328 |
     18. |          18     20     2600     2155     2863     708   220   3520 |
     19. |          19     18     2603     2199     2923     724   126   3548 |
     20. |          20     21     2646     2127     2940     813   359   3552 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21     19     2647     2150     3034     884     1   3596 |
     22. |          22     15     2659     2241     2944     703    13   3322 |
     23. |          23     16     2664   2323.5     2870   546.5   268   3428 |
     24. |          24     17   2751.5   2503.5   2982.5     479     1   3582 |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Code:
        +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median    hour_frame   median      p25      p75    iqr   min    max |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     1 - 6 UTC     2002     1087     2526   1439     1   3437 |
      2. |           2    7 - 12 UTC     2459   1884.5   2759.5    875     1   3514 |
      3. |           3    19 - 0 UTC     2525     1932     2887    955     1   3642 |
      4. |           4   13 - 18 UTC     2597     2143     2883    740     1   3582 |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Thursday
    Code:
        +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median    hour_frame   median    p25    p75    iqr   min    max |
         |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     1 - 6 UTC     2057   1176   2559   1383     1   3867 |
      2. |           2    7 - 12 UTC     2446   1943   2710    767     1   3468 |
      3. |           3    19 - 0 UTC     2467   1787   2819   1032     1   3775 |
      4. |           4   13 - 18 UTC     2539   2020   2860    840     1   4377 |
         +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Code:
        +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour   median      p25      p75     iqr   min    max |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      4     1928      770     2515    1745    79   3481 |
      2. |           2      5   1952.5     1085     2536    1451     1   3609 |
      3. |           3     13     1991   1559.5     2543   983.5    21   4377 |
      4. |           4      3   2026.5     1053     2533    1480    44   3336 |
      5. |           5      0     2119     1350     2647    1297     1   3775 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      6     2134     1433     2589    1156    16   3192 |
      7. |           7      2   2138.5     1577     2574     997    22   3867 |
      8. |           8      1   2154.5     1519     2651    1132     1   3488 |
      9. |           9     22     2261     1575     2754    1179     1   3425 |
     10. |          10      8   2302.5   1723.5   2550.5     827   187   3222 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11     10   2333.5     1629     2656    1027     1   3144 |
     12. |          12      7   2371.5     1924     2636     712   124   3213 |
     13. |          13     23     2438     1539     2799    1260   203   3748 |
     14. |          14     14     2511   2073.5   2818.5     745     1   3483 |
     15. |          15     12     2513     2180   2767.5   587.5     1   3468 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     20     2517     1787     2853    1066   149   3639 |
     17. |          17     18     2534     2082     2814     732     1   3576 |
     18. |          18     11     2552     2062     2761     699   129   3362 |
     19. |          19      9     2561   2210.5   2787.5     577     1   3219 |
     20. |          20     21   2599.5   2159.5     2892   732.5    49   3732 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21     17     2635   2108.5   2951.5     843   101   3712 |
     22. |          22     15     2642     2256     2898     642   105   3658 |
     23. |          23     19     2665     2170     2924     754   209   3574 |
     24. |          24     16   2695.5   2213.5   2969.5     756     1   3481 |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Friday
    Code:
        +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median    hour_frame   median    p25    p75    iqr   min    max |
         |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     1 - 6 UTC     2032   1196   2589   1393     1   3926 |
      2. |           2    7 - 12 UTC     2407   1785   2723    938     1   3518 |
      3. |           3    19 - 0 UTC     2505   1810   2883   1073     1   3809 |
      4. |           4   13 - 18 UTC     2599   2155   2887    732     1   3711 |
         +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Code:
        +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour   median      p25      p75      iqr   min    max |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      3     1743     1052     2422     1370    33   3410 |
      2. |           2      2   1898.5     1008     2390     1382    49   3513 |
      3. |           3      4   1933.5     1240     2447     1207    12   3926 |
      4. |           4      5     2121     1143     2696     1553     1   3434 |
      5. |           5     13     2146   1628.5     2647   1018.5     1   3351 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      0     2182   1337.5   2687.5     1350    17   3514 |
      7. |           7      1     2199     1340     2851     1511    73   3652 |
      8. |           8      8   2255.5   1543.5     2600   1056.5     1   3489 |
      9. |           9      7     2314     1470     2639     1169     1   3518 |
     10. |          10      6     2323     1393     2718     1325    25   3582 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11      9     2397     1315     2723     1408    81   3369 |
     12. |          12     14     2440     1975     2789      814     1   3330 |
     13. |          13     12     2491     2158     2757      599   107   3423 |
     14. |          14     10     2495     2109     2744      635     1   3426 |
     15. |          15     20     2511     2003     2834      831     1   3578 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     11   2512.5     1871     2823      952    32   3228 |
     17. |          17     23     2523     1686     2959     1273    42   3535 |
     18. |          18     22     2562     1973     2903      930    78   3666 |
     19. |          19     19   2562.5     1839   2918.5   1079.5     1   3809 |
     20. |          20     21     2627   2049.5     2960    910.5    22   3566 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21     18     2659     2153     2898      745    32   3711 |
     22. |          22     15     2699     2369     2914      545     1   3503 |
     23. |          23     16     2720     2356     2929      573     1   3653 |
     24. |          24     17     2783     2529     2979      450   719   3469 |
         +---------------------------------------------------------------------+


    Saturday
    Code:
        +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median    hour_frame   median      p25    p75      iqr   min    max |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     1 - 6 UTC     1796      940   2511     1571     1   3712 |
      2. |           2    7 - 12 UTC     2210     1205   2665     1460     1   3908 |
      3. |           3    19 - 0 UTC   2231.5   1159.5   2801   1641.5     1   3809 |
      4. |           4   13 - 18 UTC   2374.5     1689   2790     1101     1   3797 |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Code:
        +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour   median      p25      p75    iqr   min    max |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      6     1481      893     2341   1448     1   3438 |
      2. |           2      4     1671      749     2389   1640    14   3712 |
      3. |           3      5     1691      915     2625   1710    19   3535 |
      4. |           4     13     1785     1396     2298    902     1   3053 |
      5. |           5     21     1915      838     2779   1941    43   3809 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6     23     1964      971     2826   1855     1   3652 |
      7. |           7      8     1970      984     2511   1527     1   3908 |
      8. |           8      3     1980     1018     2548   1530    46   3595 |
      9. |           9      9     1987      920     2527   1607    19   3401 |
     10. |          10      1     2010     1045     2695   1650     1   3485 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11      2     2050   1228.5   2532.5   1304     1   3542 |
     12. |          12      0     2127      996     2705   1709    29   3451 |
     13. |          13     22     2165     1140     2721   1581    36   3679 |
     14. |          14     10     2198     1073     2630   1557   104   3375 |
     15. |          15     11     2259     1262     2779   1517    14   3405 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     20     2313     1512     2787   1275    48   3622 |
     17. |          17     14     2335     1898     2710    812     1   3605 |
     18. |          18      7     2354     1247     2742   1495    43   3364 |
     19. |          19     18     2433     1772     2832   1060     1   3564 |
     20. |          20     12     2478     1790     2736    946     1   3317 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21     16   2500.5     1856     2809    953     1   3459 |
     22. |          22     15     2518     1884     2905   1021    46   3490 |
     23. |          23     17     2587     1795     2885   1090     1   3797 |
     24. |          24     19     2612     1971     2966    995     1   3515 |
         +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    Updates for weekend and institutional effects

    Transaction counts

    Days of week
    Code:
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median        dofw   median    p25    p75    iqr   min    max |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      Sunday     1919    935   2598   1663     1   3912 |
      2. |           2    Saturday     2183   1223   2704   1481     1   3908 |
      3. |           3      Monday     2364   1634   2747   1113     1   4043 |
      4. |           4     Tuesday     2395   1751   2776   1025     1   3729 |
      5. |           5    Thursday     2402   1762   2758    996     1   4377 |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      Friday     2414   1721   2798   1077     1   3926 |
      7. |           7   Wednesday     2428   1760   2787   1027     1   3642 |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------+

    4 hour frames
    Code:
        +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median    hour_frame   median    p25      p75      iqr   min    max |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     1 - 6 UTC     1902    996   2509.5   1513.5     1   4043 |
      2. |           2    7 - 12 UTC     2363   1606     2699     1093     1   3908 |
      3. |           3    19 - 0 UTC     2416   1621   2845.5   1224.5     1   3809 |
      4. |           4   13 - 18 UTC     2514   1975     2853      878     1   4377 |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Specific hours
    Code:
        +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour   median      p25      p75      iqr   min    max |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      5     1745      884   2538.5   1654.5     1   4043 |
      2. |           2      4     1837      843     2425     1582     1   3926 |
      3. |           3      3   1898.5     1008     2481     1473    21   3595 |
      4. |           4      2     1912     1076     2457     1381     1   3930 |
      5. |           5      6     1929   1063.5     2498   1434.5     1   3789 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6     13   2048.5     1464     2531     1067     1   4377 |
      7. |           7      1     2064     1086     2674     1588     1   3684 |
      8. |           8      0     2070     1099   2642.5   1543.5     1   3786 |
      9. |           9      8     2179     1493     2577     1084     1   3908 |
     10. |          10      7     2273     1278     2646     1368     1   3518 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11     22     2326   1575.5     2790   1214.5     1   3781 |
     12. |          12     23     2331     1321     2844     1523     1   3772 |
     13. |          13     10     2364   1694.5   2658.5      964     1   3426 |
     14. |          14      9     2372     1540     2700     1160     1   3729 |
     15. |          15     14   2409.5   1948.5     2749    800.5     1   3605 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     11     2441   1698.5   2765.5     1067     1   3514 |
     17. |          17     21     2496     1745     2881     1136     1   3809 |
     18. |          18     12     2503     1978     2776      798     1   3539 |
     19. |          19     20   2519.5   1926.5   2885.5      959     1   3662 |
     20. |          20     18   2557.5     2033     2890      857     1   3711 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21     16     2602     2164     2888      724     1   3912 |
     22. |          22     19     2610     2009     2943      934     1   3809 |
     23. |          23     15     2630     2180     2903      723     1   3685 |
     24. |          24     17     2685     2238     2959      721     1   3797 |
         +---------------------------------------------------------------------+


    Fees per kb
    Days of week
    Code:
         +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median        dofw    median       p25       p75        iqr   min      max |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      Sunday   12700.8   8690.33   20556.8   11866.47     0   188742 |
      2. |           2    Saturday   14257.6   9221.46   24028.1   14806.64     0   251598 |
      3. |           3      Monday   15810.1   10102.7   27392.7      17290     0   186707 |
      4. |           4     Tuesday     17296   11337.8   29133.3    17795.5     0   189464 |
      5. |           5   Wednesday   18283.3     11404   32239.9    20835.9     0   240323 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      Friday   18470.4   11586.7     35324    23737.3     0   200909 |
      7. |           7    Thursday   18698.7   11583.7   35223.6    23639.9     0   205993 |
         +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    4 hour frames
    Code:
        +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median    hour_frame     median        p25        p75        iqr   min      max |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     1 - 6 UTC   14715.75    9900.97   23627.65   13726.68     0   179317 |
      2. |           2    7 - 12 UTC      15385    9859.04    27262.2   17403.16     0   240323 |
      3. |           3    19 - 0 UTC    15526.9   9584.255    28404.7   18820.45     0   251598 |
      4. |           4   13 - 18 UTC      20462    12816.1    37721.7    24905.6     0   205993 |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Specific hours
    Code:
        +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour     median        p25        p75        iqr       min      max |
         |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     23    13672.5    8924.76    25592.5   16667.74         0   197133 |
      2. |           2      0    13974.3   8839.105   23478.65   14639.54         0   251598 |
      3. |           3      6    13974.5     9788.5   22205.45   12416.95         0   179317 |
      4. |           4      5    14066.3   9908.475   20872.65   10964.18         0   158879 |
      5. |           5      1    14225.4    9301.72    23568.6   14266.88         0   153043 |
         |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      4    14648.5    9749.46    23919.4   14169.94         0   170940 |
      7. |           7     11    14746.1    9253.01   26180.15   16927.14         0   184278 |
      8. |           8      8    14754.7   9768.505    25968.8    16200.3         0   163804 |
      9. |           9      7    15214.3    10228.3    25028.7    14800.4         0   172784 |
     10. |          10     22    15233.3    9400.43    30033.5   20633.07         0   175237 |
         |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11      3   15264.15    10360.4    24253.3    13892.9   702.706   151196 |
     12. |          12      9    15411.3    10056.1    27745.4    17689.3         0   163924 |
     13. |          13     10    15793.8    10048.1    27756.1      17708         0   240323 |
     14. |          14     21    15954.7     9574.7    29815.7      20241         0   165064 |
     15. |          15      2   16281.25    10476.9    26734.1    16257.2         0   171137 |
         |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     12    17040.6    9942.12    31164.4   21222.28         0   191862 |
     17. |          17     20   17292.65    10539.9   32032.15   21492.25         0   195694 |
     18. |          18     19    17643.5    10512.7    31874.1    21361.4         0   182568 |
     19. |          19     18    19047.3    11483.9    33592.4    22108.5         0   184813 |
     20. |          20     15   19439.85   12662.85   34582.15    21919.3         0   197136 |
         |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21     17   19527.35      12374    35840.9    23466.9         0   188799 |
     22. |          22     14   19864.95   12991.75    33917.3   20925.55         0   203965 |
     23. |          23     16    20149.8    12503.3    34950.6    22447.3         0   205993 |
     24. |          24     13    26047.5    15521.4    60192.1    44670.7         0   203426 |
         +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    The article is interesting: https://cointelegraph.com/news/set-your-alarms-most-bitcoin-is-now-traded-during-these-hours
    It, once again, confirms that weekends are good periods to move bitcoin, with often cheaper fees than in other days of week. You can always look at mempool and choose time to move your bitcoin at cheapest fees but generally you should do this in weekends.

    Regarding to time frames of day, my previous analysis for the whole period since 2018 so I will do another one for this year (2020) only and compare my results with what are given by the article.

    Quality of the image is not good.

    Quote
    Further data from on-chain analyst Skew confirms the trend. At present, around 4 pm UTC marks the most intense time of day for Bitcoin trading.

    Again using Coinbase, in addition to Binance, Skew finds that midweek is also more intense than the start or end of the working week. Weekends, as is often noted, are quieter still.

    As an example, over the past 30 days, Coinbase saw an average of $6.5 million in volume between 3 pm and 4 pm UTC. The quietest hour, 9 am, saw just $2 million.

    Those times correspond to around 12 pm EST, or 2.5 hours after NY markets officially open.
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    Very nice analysis and presentation. I felt that Sundays/Saturdays were the best weekdays in the context of transaction fees, but you proved it!
    Thank you!
    You can get visual proofs from the Jochen-hoenicke.de site. To observe the weekend effects, you have to choose the last 30 days graph (choose 30d for Period tab) or simply click the link https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,30d
    This confirms what I knew already: Sunday's are the best days to consolidate small inputs.
    Johoe's Bitcoin Mempool Size Statistics gives a very good (graphical) overview of recent (or all-time) fees.
    sr. member
    Activity: 443
    Merit: 350
    Very nice analysis and presentation. I felt that Sundays/Saturdays were the best weekdays in the context of transaction fees, but you proved it!
    Thank you!
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    Interesting updates for you guys. Let's rock!

    • Sundays are better than Saturdays to move bitcoin with lower median fees.
    • The best hour-frame to move bitcoin is from 19 - 0 UTC.
    • There are likely changes in best hour-frame from institutional capital (see the changes in best hour-frame between 3 periods 2011 - 2013; 2014 - 2017 and 2018 - 2020. You can easily see the hour-frame 19 - 0 UTC slowly climbs up to the top (from most expensive to cheapest.

    Note:
    • hour: in UTC


    Stratified by hours
    Full data 2009 - 2020

    Code:
    Summary for variables: feeperkb
         by categories of: hour

        hour |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
    ---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           0 |   26207.0  103393.4  502453.6   31582.6    9641.4   96372.9       0.0   3.8e+07
           1 |   26027.0  101575.1  584553.1   31519.3    9643.9   94205.6       0.0   7.3e+07
           2 |   26190.0   99196.3  558043.1   31413.7   10418.1   91417.5       0.0   5.9e+07
           3 |   25924.0   98541.5  439057.2   31315.8   10686.8   92773.0       0.0   4.6e+07
           4 |   26386.0   96736.9  533605.3   30908.2    9790.8   92421.4       0.0   5.7e+07
           5 |   26239.0  100688.4 1203361.0   31137.5   10137.5   93916.8       0.0   1.9e+08
           6 |   26343.0   94430.7  344936.3   30902.0    9382.3   91444.4       0.0   3.2e+07
           7 |   25722.0   95806.3  691420.5   30821.2    9416.7   91236.1       0.0   9.9e+07
           8 |   26336.0   94652.7  301875.3   31561.7    9990.2   95045.6       0.0   2.2e+07
           9 |   25961.0  101684.3  586712.4   31652.4    9923.4   94733.9       0.0   7.9e+07
          10 |   26414.0   99916.0  611851.1   31418.8    9687.6   94223.7       0.0   8.5e+07
          11 |   26590.0  103306.3  408190.1   31799.3    9247.8   95784.0       0.0   2.0e+07
          12 |   26344.0   96474.0  277447.6   32695.3    9264.1   95163.6       0.0 7982190.0
          13 |   26274.0  162112.9 6254117.2   38078.1   12905.2   99756.3       0.0   8.8e+08
          14 |   26318.0  112315.0  568639.9   34930.4   11684.6   99917.8       0.0   5.1e+07
          15 |   26157.0  116210.3 1352799.8   34572.2   11018.2  103306.0       0.0   2.0e+08
          16 |   26543.0  153261.5 7027734.4   34412.3   11694.5  103588.0       0.0   1.1e+09
          17 |   26471.0  112858.1 1421354.0   34208.4   11042.6  105605.0       0.0   2.2e+08
          18 |   26636.0  107566.9  866164.7   33158.4   10174.8  103299.5       0.0   1.3e+08
          19 |   26575.0  112892.3 1009389.1   32478.4    9633.9  101863.0       0.0   1.4e+08
          20 |   26244.0  110802.0  640915.2   32843.2   10050.4  103353.5       0.0   6.3e+07
          21 |   26517.0  102294.4  351400.5   32119.7    9234.4  100586.0       0.0   2.5e+07
          22 |   26558.0  103410.2  599391.9   31784.7    9936.9   99970.9       0.0   6.7e+07
          23 |   26269.0  119384.4 2912319.3   30677.9    8937.7   94768.8       0.0   4.7e+08
    ---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       Total |  631245.0  108343.2 2128284.4   32314.6   10077.3   97241.8       0.0   1.1e+09
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Code:
       +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour     median        p25        p75        iqr   min        max |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     23    30677.9    8937.71    94768.8   85831.09     0   4.67e+08 |
      2. |           2      7    30821.2    9416.68    91236.1   81819.42     0   9.94e+07 |
      3. |           3      6      30902    9382.32    91444.4   82062.08     0   3.17e+07 |
      4. |           4      4    30908.2    9790.79    92421.4   82630.61     0   5.66e+07 |
      5. |           5      5    31137.5    10137.5    93916.8    83779.3     0   1.89e+08 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      3   31315.85   10686.75      92773   82086.25     0   4.64e+07 |
      7. |           7      2    31413.7    10418.1    91417.5    80999.4     0   5.94e+07 |
      8. |           8     10   31418.75    9687.57    94223.7   84536.13     0   8.54e+07 |
      9. |           9      1    31519.3    9643.87    94205.6   84561.73     0   7.33e+07 |
     10. |          10      8    31561.7    9990.22    95045.6   85055.38     0   2.17e+07 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11      0    31582.6    9641.44    96372.9   86731.46     0   3.75e+07 |
     12. |          12      9    31652.4    9923.39    94733.9   84810.51     0   7.88e+07 |
     13. |          13     22    31784.7    9936.87    99970.9   90034.03     0   6.69e+07 |
     14. |          14     11   31799.35    9247.78      95784   86536.22     0   2.02e+07 |
     15. |          15     21    32119.7    9234.37     100586   91351.63     0   2.50e+07 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     19    32478.4    9633.91     101863   92229.09     0   1.39e+08 |
     17. |          17     12    32695.3   9264.115   95163.55   85899.43     0    7982190 |
     18. |          18     20    32843.2    10050.4   103353.5    93303.1     0   6.31e+07 |
     19. |          19     18   33158.45    10174.8   103299.5    93124.7     0   1.33e+08 |
     20. |          20     17    34208.4    11042.6     105605    94562.4     0   2.24e+08 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21     16    34412.3    11694.5     103588    91893.5     0   1.14e+09 |
     22. |          22     15    34572.2    11018.2     103306    92287.8     0   1.98e+08 |
     23. |          23     14    34930.4    11684.6    99917.8    88233.2     0   5.09e+07 |
     24. |          24     13   38078.05    12905.2    99756.3   86851.09     0   8.81e+08 |
         +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    2009, 2010 dropped.
    Code:
    Summary for variables: feeperkb
         by categories of: hour

        hour |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
    ---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           0 |   22065.0  119735.6  533293.4   41091.5   20681.8  118328.0       0.0   3.8e+07
           1 |   21879.0  117844.4  629134.0   40825.4   21152.9  115141.0       0.0   7.3e+07
           2 |   22080.0  115814.6  601628.9   40136.9   21274.0  112003.0       0.0   5.9e+07
           3 |   21768.0  114133.3  465364.8   40321.5   21490.6  112990.0       0.0   4.6e+07
           4 |   22156.0  112700.0  574555.4   39809.6   20935.8  112992.0       0.0   5.7e+07
           5 |   22032.0  107976.5  298043.0   40401.1   21019.3  113605.5       0.0   1.8e+07
           6 |   22111.0  110241.3  364796.2   39932.1   20821.9  111434.0       0.0   3.2e+07
           7 |   21602.0  111130.5  747347.2   39996.8   20505.2  111931.0       0.0   9.9e+07
           8 |   22179.0  109869.6  314554.7   41045.5   21037.5  114681.0       0.0   2.2e+07
           9 |   21891.0  116504.8  627838.6   41578.4   21343.4  115269.0       0.0   7.9e+07
          10 |   22280.0  115326.4  657863.9   41057.7   21118.1  115319.5       0.0   8.5e+07
          11 |   22369.0  119387.0  430631.1   41538.4   20883.6  116678.0       0.0   2.0e+07
          12 |   22139.0  109772.7  273177.9   42048.0   21453.4  114715.0       0.0 7982190.0
          13 |   22167.0  188499.6 6807822.4   50770.5   25092.7  119968.0       0.0   8.8e+08
          14 |   22112.0  129063.0  580356.9   45560.9   23555.0  121351.0       0.0   5.1e+07
          15 |   21848.0  132179.0 1426235.8   46691.3   23097.8  124090.0       0.0   2.0e+08
          16 |   22316.0  176964.7 7663158.5   45197.8   22753.9  124488.0       0.0   1.1e+09
          17 |   22307.0  130185.8 1543968.1   45670.1   22336.9  125788.0       0.0   2.2e+08
          18 |   22368.0  123704.9  937479.3   44309.4   21841.8  124521.5       0.0   1.3e+08
          19 |   22289.0  131506.8 1096674.4   43140.1   21367.8  124172.0       0.0   1.4e+08
          20 |   22148.0  127433.8  688209.1   43422.1   21416.8  124435.5       0.0   6.3e+07
          21 |   22258.0  118984.4  372195.4   42225.6   20886.9  122386.0       0.0   2.5e+07
          22 |   22453.0  118017.1  577542.8   41200.9   20794.6  120058.0       0.0   6.7e+07
          23 |   22018.0  140462.2 3179888.2   40217.6   20228.7  116186.0       0.0   4.7e+08
    ---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       Total |  530835.0  124932.2 2301321.3   42317.6   21560.9  117911.0       0.0   1.1e+09
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Code:
        +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour     median        p25        p75        iqr   min        max |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      4    39809.6   20935.85     112992   92056.15     0   5.66e+07 |
      2. |           2      6    39932.1    20821.9     111434    90612.1     0   3.17e+07 |
      3. |           3      7   39996.85    20505.2     111931    91425.8     0   9.94e+07 |
      4. |           4      2    40136.9      21274     112003      90729     0   5.94e+07 |
      5. |           5     23   40217.65    20228.7     116186    95957.3     0   4.67e+08 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      3    40321.5    21490.6     112990    91499.4     0   4.64e+07 |
      7. |           7      5   40401.15   21019.25   113605.5   92586.25     0   1.83e+07 |
      8. |           8      1    40825.4    21152.9     115141    93988.1     0   7.33e+07 |
      9. |           9      8    41045.5    21037.5     114681    93643.5     0   2.17e+07 |
     10. |          10     10    41057.7   21118.05   115319.5   94201.45     0   8.54e+07 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11      0    41091.5    20681.8     118328    97646.2     0   3.75e+07 |
     12. |          12     22    41200.9    20794.6     120058    99263.4     0   6.69e+07 |
     13. |          13     11    41538.4    20883.6     116678    95794.4     0   2.02e+07 |
     14. |          14      9    41578.4    21343.4     115269    93925.6     0   7.88e+07 |
     15. |          15     12      42048    21453.4     114715    93261.6     0    7982190 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     21   42225.55    20886.9     122386   101499.1     0   2.50e+07 |
     17. |          17     19    43140.1    21367.8     124172   102804.2     0   1.39e+08 |
     18. |          18     20   43422.15   21416.75   124435.5   103018.8     0   6.31e+07 |
     19. |          19     18   44309.45    21841.8   124521.5   102679.7     0   1.33e+08 |
     20. |          20     16    45197.8    22753.9     124488   101734.1     0   1.14e+09 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21     14    45560.9      23555     121351      97796     0   5.09e+07 |
     22. |          22     17    45670.1    22336.9     125788   103451.1     0   2.24e+08 |
     23. |          23     15    46691.3    23097.8     124090   100992.2     0   1.98e+08 |
     24. |          24     13    50770.5    25092.7     119968    94875.3     0   8.81e+08 |
         +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Since 2018 only
    Code:
    Summary for variables: feeperkb
         by categories of: hour

        hour |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
    ---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           0 |    5296.0   34068.8   63377.0   17455.9   10361.9   30103.8       0.0  879840.0
           1 |    5358.0   35508.3   63042.6   18429.1   11018.9   32417.6       0.0  612975.0
           2 |    5342.0   36398.2   62284.5   19624.6   12016.7   34092.1       0.0  595758.0
           3 |    5291.0   35297.5   59725.5   19593.6   12054.1   32813.7       0.0  605636.0
           4 |    5454.0   35303.5   60762.7   18834.2   11664.1   32047.0       0.0  592790.0
           5 |    5370.0   34743.2   60697.7   18271.3   11680.2   31979.4       0.0  640286.0
           6 |    5360.0   35593.4   63258.3   18098.7   11084.8   32745.3       0.0  684738.0
           7 |    5288.0   33648.5   57450.5   18232.8   11129.2   32125.8       0.0  603728.0
           8 |    5392.0   37056.4   64431.8   18619.2   11347.2   34914.3       0.0  959738.0
           9 |    5316.0   36231.1   61063.3   19385.3   11308.5   34475.4       0.0  537101.0
          10 |    5399.0   36393.9   62302.2   18386.5   10734.8   33974.3       0.0  873767.0
          11 |    5370.0   36402.4   63649.1   18350.7   10694.9   34230.9       0.0  795582.0
          12 |    5208.0   36498.4   62782.4   19024.1   10853.4   35527.1       0.0  625477.0
          13 |    5346.0   51329.0   67594.9   32485.4   16084.0   62872.2       0.0  643424.0
          14 |    5431.0   42508.3   67507.5   23476.7   13511.5   43648.1       0.0  621954.0
          15 |    5217.0   43999.4   71250.5   23233.9   13896.7   42568.1       0.0  637244.0
          16 |    5455.0   42098.8   69826.6   21741.7   12784.5   40758.3       0.0  650844.0
          17 |    5495.0   40808.0   67702.9   21119.7   12241.5   38691.7       0.0  604820.0
          18 |    5422.0   38965.6   68666.8   19388.3   11359.3   36139.9       0.0  621837.0
          19 |    5530.0   37187.8   65017.2   18647.9   10713.8   34300.3       0.0  600615.0
          20 |    5418.0   35860.3   63591.5   18090.5   10542.4   33115.9       0.0  652918.0
          21 |    5511.0   34012.6   62688.2   17183.4    9969.6   31152.6       0.0  710515.0
          22 |    5562.0   33991.4   62420.1   16991.7   10375.2   31100.6       0.0  679488.0
          23 |    5453.0   31921.1   63766.6   16042.0    9903.2   27813.6       0.0  614009.0
    ---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       Total |  129284.0   37318.3   64167.9   19274.7   11389.7   35444.2       0.0  959738.0
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Code:
        +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour     median        p25        p75        iqr   min      max |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     23      16042    9903.23    27813.6   17910.37     0   614009 |
      2. |           2     22    16991.7    10375.2    31100.6    20725.4     0   679488 |
      3. |           3     21    17183.4    9969.59    31152.6   21183.01     0   710515 |
      4. |           4      0   17455.95    10361.9    30103.8    19741.9     0   879840 |
      5. |           5     20    18090.5    10542.4    33115.9    22573.5     0   652918 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      6    18098.7   11084.85   32745.25    21660.4     0   684738 |
      7. |           7      7   18232.75   11129.15   32125.85    20996.7     0   603728 |
      8. |           8      5   18271.35    11680.2    31979.4    20299.2     0   640286 |
      9. |           9     11   18350.65    10694.9    34230.9      23536     0   795582 |
     10. |          10     10    18386.5    10734.8    33974.3    23239.5     0   873767 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11      1    18429.1    11018.9    32417.6    21398.7     0   612975 |
     12. |          12      8   18619.15    11347.2   34914.25   23567.05     0   959738 |
     13. |          13     19    18647.9    10713.8    34300.3    23586.5     0   600615 |
     14. |          14      4   18834.15    11664.1      32047    20382.9     0   592790 |
     15. |          15     12    19024.1   10853.35    35527.1   24673.75     0   625477 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16      9   19385.25    11308.5   34475.45   23166.95     0   537101 |
     17. |          17     18   19388.25    11359.3    36139.9    24780.6     0   621837 |
     18. |          18      3    19593.6    12054.1    32813.7    20759.6     0   605636 |
     19. |          19      2   19624.55    12016.7    34092.1    22075.4     0   595758 |
     20. |          20     17    21119.7    12241.5    38691.7    26450.2     0   604820 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21     16    21741.7    12784.5    40758.3    27973.8     0   650844 |
     22. |          22     15    23233.9    13896.7    42568.1    28671.4     0   637244 |
     23. |          23     14    23476.7    13511.5    43648.1    30136.6     0   621954 |
     24. |          24     13   32485.45      16084    62872.2    46788.2     0   643424 |
         +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Weekend-effects since 2018
    Only for data since 2018 till now

    Generally, Sundays are better than Saturdays. And it seems the hour frame from 19 - 0 UTC time is best to move bitcoin.

    Saturdays:
    Code:
        +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour     median        p25        p75        iqr      min      max |
         |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     23   13923.75    8881.78    24646.2   15764.42        0   489047 |
      2. |           2     19    14864.2    8933.15    28243.8   19310.65        0   531955 |
      3. |           3     22   15268.75    9715.71    27223.1   17507.39        0   516933 |
      4. |           4     21    15311.7    9357.44    25406.7   16049.26        0   505436 |
      5. |           5     20    15550.3    9795.88    27806.7   18010.82        0   549642 |
         |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6     18   15790.25    9265.41    30937.8   21672.39        0   514021 |
      7. |           7     11    15896.1    9954.67    31395.4   21440.73        0   505285 |
      8. |           8     17    16185.3    10321.2    30604.9    20283.7        0   520122 |
      9. |           9     10    16791.4   9803.845   31005.05   21201.21        0   501147 |
     10. |          10      7   16926.05      10425    30062.3    19637.3        0   525720 |
         |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11      5    17112.4    10894.3    29917.9    19023.6        0   515187 |
     12. |          12      8    17285.5    10686.3    30582.2    19895.9        0   530335 |
     13. |          13     12   17335.95    10381.3    30578.7    20197.4        0   518726 |
     14. |          14      0      17348      10772    28477.4    17705.4        0   515283 |
     15. |          15     15    17633.6    10762.6    31614.8    20852.2        0   495409 |
         |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     16    17673.3    10282.6    32347.9    22065.3        0   532994 |
     17. |          17      6    17688.1    11474.2    31929.1    20454.9        0   557016 |
     18. |          18      4   18152.15   11692.25    29211.9   17519.65        0   592790 |
     19. |          19      9    18410.5    11200.3    29740.2    18539.9   1107.9   497460 |
     20. |          20     14   18425.95    11298.3      31693    20394.7        0   534530 |
         |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21      3    19115.9    12166.3    29836.2    17669.9        0   552175 |
     22. |          22      1   19219.55    11401.8    31400.7    19998.9        0   541738 |
     23. |          23      2    19597.8   12589.25    33943.7   21354.45        0   488497 |
     24. |          24     13    24028.1    13132.5    54373.4    41240.9        0   485792 |
         +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Sundays:
    Code:
        +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median   hour     median        p25        p75        iqr   min      max |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1     23      13565    8924.87    23388.1   14463.23     0   541857 |
      2. |           2     20    13689.9    8678.07    25328.5   16650.43     0   495122 |
      3. |           3     21    13959.2    8622.04    25230.7   16608.66     0   710515 |
      4. |           4     22    14058.1    9195.76    25558.5   16362.74     0   542217 |
      5. |           5     19    15032.3    8969.46    26609.4   17639.94     0   504652 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6     11    15592.9     9817.8    26720.6    16902.8     0   542285 |
      7. |           7     18   15609.35    9349.24    27726.1   18376.86     0   535356 |
      8. |           8      0      15625      10214    29802.4    19588.4     0   507533 |
      9. |           9      9    15900.1    10137.6    30006.4    19868.8     0   536622 |
     10. |          10      5      15982   10905.45   26213.85    15308.4     0   546672 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     11. |          11     10    16055.9    9409.94    27165.6   17755.66     0   576058 |
     12. |          12      1   16160.15    10067.6    28240.4    18172.8     0   497123 |
     13. |          13      6    16245.7    10107.4    28107.6    18000.2     0   544942 |
     14. |          14     12   16250.15    9725.29      29132   19406.71     0   520193 |
     15. |          15     17      16351    9893.29   31823.95   21930.66     0   551834 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     16. |          16     16    16524.9   9867.565    26740.5   16872.93     0   579706 |
     17. |          17      7    16573.6    10314.6    28666.2    18351.6     0   548623 |
     18. |          18     14   16951.85      10722    30204.5    19482.5     0   501031 |
     19. |          19      8      17095    11187.3    29898.8    18711.5     0   539959 |
     20. |          20      4   17110.85    10385.2    27700.7    17315.5     0   496670 |
         |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
     21. |          21      2    17411.5    11265.6    30644.7    19379.1     0   487012 |
     22. |          22     15   17938.55    11079.7   32156.85   21077.15     0   536418 |
     23. |          23      3      18753    11542.8    29393.5    17850.7     0   490857 |
     24. |          24     13    22715.5    12521.7    50709.1    38187.4     0   547448 |
         +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Now, let's get a better overview by stratifying hours into 4 categories of hour-frame.
    26 May 2020, I expanded it with a previous period, 2011 - 2013.
    Saturday
    Code:
        +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         |      period    hour_frame   rank_median     median        iqr       p25       p75   min        max       dofw |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. | 2018 - 2020    19 - 0 UTC             1      15321   17522.71   9514.79   27037.5     0     549642   saturday |
      2. | 2018 - 2020    7 - 12 UTC             2    17088.6    20200.6     10423   30623.6     0     530335   saturday |
      3. | 2018 - 2020   13 - 18 UTC             3    17974.8      24323   10752.2   35075.2     0     534530   saturday |
      4. | 2018 - 2020     1 - 6 UTC             4      18399    19203.7   11587.5   30791.2     0     592790   saturday |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      5. | 2014 - 2017    7 - 12 UTC             1   36939.35    46594.9   25879.3   72474.2     0    1022810   saturday |
      6. | 2014 - 2017    19 - 0 UTC             2    37383.2    44285.4   26544.9   70830.3     0    2341400   saturday |
      7. | 2014 - 2017     1 - 6 UTC             3    37849.3    45339.6   26481.6   71821.2     0    1093800   saturday |
      8. | 2014 - 2017   13 - 18 UTC             4    38777.6    51459.3   26441.9   77901.2     0   1.15e+07   saturday |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      9. | 2011 - 2013     1 - 6 UTC             1   110409.5   141870.2   43122.8    184993     0   1.14e+07   saturday |
     10. | 2011 - 2013    7 - 12 UTC             2     112179   130555.2   46890.8    177446     0   1.77e+07   saturday |
     11. | 2011 - 2013   13 - 18 UTC             3   119406.5   141103.1   48470.9    189574     0   1.90e+07   saturday |
     12. | 2011 - 2013    19 - 0 UTC             4     120998     140629     54706    195335     0   6.04e+07   saturday |
         +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Sunday
    Code:
        +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         |      period    hour_frame   rank_median     median        iqr        p25       p75   min        max     dofw |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. | 2018 - 2020    19 - 0 UTC             1    14227.6   16710.62    9082.48   25793.1     0     710515   sunday |
      2. | 2018 - 2020    7 - 12 UTC             2      16216    18386.4    10102.7   28489.1     0     576058   sunday |
      3. | 2018 - 2020     1 - 6 UTC             3    16822.1    17625.7    10782.2   28407.9     0     546672   sunday |
      4. | 2018 - 2020   13 - 18 UTC             4    17529.2    22342.5    10392.2   32734.7     0     579706   sunday |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      5. | 2014 - 2017    7 - 12 UTC             1    35401.9    42150.8    25213.9   67364.7     0    1108710   sunday |
      6. | 2014 - 2017     1 - 6 UTC             2   35798.95   39597.35   25903.75   65501.1     0    1361470   sunday |
      7. | 2014 - 2017    19 - 0 UTC             3    37735.6    47127.5    26159.8   73287.3     0    2659140   sunday |
      8. | 2014 - 2017   13 - 18 UTC             4      37808    49860.7    24980.9   74841.6     0   3.81e+07   sunday |
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      9. | 2011 - 2013     1 - 6 UTC             1     111690   139801.4    46474.6    186276     0   3.17e+07   sunday |
     10. | 2011 - 2013    7 - 12 UTC             2     116072   133731.5    48235.5    181967     0   2.17e+07   sunday |
     11. | 2011 - 2013   13 - 18 UTC             3     117441   139759.4    49094.6    188854     0   8.81e+08   sunday |
     12. | 2011 - 2013    19 - 0 UTC             4   123885.5   138552.3   56797.65    195350     0   4.67e+08   sunday |
         +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Once again, in the same hour-frame, Sundays are better than Saturdays to move bitcoin. Below are percent of differences between Sundays and Saturdays, in the period 2018 - 2020.
    Code:
    * 19 - 0 UTC
    . di (14228-15321)/15321*100
    -7.1339991

    * 7 - 12 UTC
    . di (16216-17089)/17089*100
    -5.1085494

    * 1 - 6 UTC
    . di (16822-17975)/17975*100
    -6.4144645

    * 13 - 18 UTC
    . di (17529-18399)/18399*100
    -4.7285179
    legendary
    Activity: 2268
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    Before the halving messing up everything with the blocks time I observed a pattern, during weekdays before 11-13 GMT+1 there was still a way to send low fees, then the mempool was starting to grow and it will finally reached its peak somewhere at around midnight then decreasing during the night till becoming nearly empty.
    Yes. The time of day plays a much larger role in determining fees than the day of the week.

    Go to https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,30d to look at the last thirty days of data. Mouse over every local dip in fees, and you will notice that the vast majority fall in the range of 0700-1200 UTC. Mouse over every local peak, and you will notice that the vast majority fall in the range of 1700-0000 UTC. This was true before the halving and the most recent difficulty adjustment, and it is still true after both of these events (just with higher peaks and higher lows).

    If you want to make a cheap transaction, then you can save a lot more on fees by timing it appropriately than just by waiting for the weekend (not to mention not having to wait so long either). In Asia and Australia, transact in the evening. In Europe and Africa, in the morning. In the Americas, it's late night/early morning, so probably queue it up before you go to bed.
    legendary
    Activity: 2170
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    By the way, could you confirm the time zone from blockchair.com is in GMT time zone or another one, please.

    They use the UTC timezone according to their API docs[1]. The website use the same thing. If you visit https://blockchair.com/bitcoin for example, you'll see "Time (UTC)".

    [1] https://blockchair.com/api/docs
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
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    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    This confirms what I knew already: Sunday's are the best days to consolidate small inputs.
    Johoe's Bitcoin Mempool Size Statistics gives a very good (graphical) overview of recent (or all-time) fees.

    I've been waiting for a low-fee transaction to confirm for 10 days now, it even skipped last Sunday. I'm in no rush Smiley
    I know the page of Johoe but as I said there is only chart and no details on fees over days of week.  I can look at the chart and guess but I don't like that. Cheesy

    By the way, could you confirm the time zone from blockchair.com is in GMT time zone or another one, please.

    Or it's just that people are still getting drunk at weekends and stop depositing and withdrawing as well as other purchases.  Grin
    Actually I'm hoping it is like that although when finally coinbase started batching transaction this drop happened.
    I don't know. Despite of the fact that Sundays and Saturdays are best days to move bitcoin, the Monday has the best declining percentages (-38.3%) in median fees (between 2018 and 2020). The next two ones are Sunday (-36.3%) and Saturday (-33.3%).

    OP is updated with more details!
    legendary
    Activity: 2912
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    Blackjack.fun
    I guess for example that the average "weekend effect" has increased in recent years, when "institutional money" has become a more reliable driving force in the markets, rather than 8 years ago when bitcoin was an "underground" experiment.

    Or it's just that people are still getting drunk at weekends and stop depositing and withdrawing as well as other purchases.  Grin
    Actually I'm hoping it is like that although when finally coinbase started batching transaction this drop happened.


    Before the halving messing up everything with the blocks time I observed a pattern, during weekdays before 11-13 GMT+1 there was still a way to send low fees, then the mempool was starting to grow and it will finally reached its peak somewhere at around midnight then decreasing during the night till becoming nearly empty. Again, I've observed this from a CET timezone.

    I've been waiting for a low-fee transaction to confirm for 10 days now, it even skipped last Sunday. I'm in no rush Smiley

    Next retarget might happen in 17 days (for real) so....you might have to wait a bit, Thranduil.
    legendary
    Activity: 3290
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    Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
    This confirms what I knew already: Sunday's are the best days to consolidate small inputs.
    Johoe's Bitcoin Mempool Size Statistics gives a very good (graphical) overview of recent (or all-time) fees.

    I've been waiting for a low-fee transaction to confirm for 10 days now, it even skipped last Sunday. I'm in no rush Smiley
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    Ok fil. I will take a look at it. The OP is in-progress. I make it because I saw people talk about weekend effects on fees. But there is no stats on this. Just a vague clue over the forum. I know people look at the mempool stats and jump to such conclusion.

    Now, here you go with detailed stats. I will stratify it over specific years, tomorrow. I am off my computer now.
    legendary
    Activity: 2268
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    Fully fledged Merit Cycler - Golden Feather 22-23
    Nice work Tranthidung,
    So apparently , as Many would expect, off peak days are the best to transact. However I think that aggregate statistics over 9 years period are considering a too different market environment to bee meaningful.
    I guess for example that the average "weekend effect" has increased in recent years, when "institutional money" has become a more reliable driving force in the markets, rather than 8 years ago when bitcoin was an "underground" experiment.
    I think you can progress your analysis in this direction, for example detailing how relevant is the "Saturday discount" over the years, maybe in percentage so to average different fees levels.

     
    legendary
    Activity: 2310
    Merit: 4085
    Farewell o_e_l_e_o
    I made an update and additional analysis here, please check it along with OP.
    Changes of median fees and best hour-frame to move bitcoins, potential institutional effects


    Data source:



    Notes:
    All timestamps are in the UTC timezone, and have the following format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:ii:ss



    From 03/01/2009 to 21/05/2020, there are some interesting things on bitcoin transaction fees (satoshis/ kB), over days of week.

    Code:
    Summary for variables: feeperkb
         by categories of: dofw

         dofw |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       Sunday |     593.0  115803.4  468940.0   34697.5   16324.6  128883.5       0.0 9484216.2
       Monday |     593.0  111365.9  401325.0   37557.2   18009.1  140753.8       0.0 9225123.3
      Tuesday |     593.0  100150.8  158071.5   38152.3   19496.3  138605.4       0.0 1605024.8
    Wednesday |     593.0   96682.2  152792.6   37311.1   19622.8  140122.4       0.0 1935712.1
     Thursday |     593.0  100000.1  155034.9   37832.8   19532.9  137204.1       0.0 1614434.0
       Friday |     593.0  100188.7  165738.1   38049.2   19795.5  139654.3       0.0 1739244.7
     Saturday |     594.0   91788.8  135577.6   35897.1   16857.5  129571.5       0.0  964080.3
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total |    4152.0  102280.3  266939.1   37111.2   18488.7  137180.5       0.0 9484216.2
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Ranks in median fees:
    Code:
        +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median        dofw     median        iqr        p25        p75   min        max   median_all |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      Sunday   34697.51   112558.9   16324.63   128883.5     0    9484216      37111.2 |
      2. |           2    Saturday   35897.09   112713.9   16857.54   129571.5     0   964080.3      37111.2 |
      3. |           3   Wednesday   37311.14   120499.6    19622.8   140122.4     0    1935712      37111.2 |
      4. |           4      Monday   37557.21   122744.7   18009.13   140753.8     0    9225123      37111.2 |
      5. |           5    Thursday   37832.75   117671.2   19532.88   137204.1     0    1614434      37111.2 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      Friday   38049.16   119858.8   19795.47   139654.3     0    1739245      37111.2 |
      7. |           7     Tuesday   38152.32   119109.1   19496.31   138605.4     0    1605025      37111.2 |
         +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Which days of week are the best for you to move your bitcoins? Look at the following results

    The two best days are in the weekend:
    • Sunday: ~ 6.5% lower fees (than median fees)
    • Saturday: ~ 3.3 lower fees (than median fees)
    Code:
        +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         | rank_median        dofw     median   median_all     percent        iqr        p25        p75   min        max |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |           1      Sunday   34697.51      37111.2   -6.503933   112558.9   16324.63   128883.5     0    9484216 |
      2. |           2    Saturday   35897.09      37111.2   -3.271534   112713.9   16857.54   129571.5     0   964080.3 |
      3. |           3   Wednesday   37311.14      37111.2    .5387735   120499.6    19622.8   140122.4     0    1935712 |
      4. |           4      Monday   37557.21      37111.2    1.201836   122744.7   18009.13   140753.8     0    9225123 |
      5. |           5    Thursday   37832.75      37111.2    1.944304   117671.2   19532.88   137204.1     0    1614434 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |           6      Friday   38049.16      37111.2    2.527444   119858.8   19795.47   139654.3     0    1739245 |
      7. |           7     Tuesday   38152.32      37111.2     2.80542   119109.1   19496.31   138605.4     0    1605025 |
         +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


    Stratification by years
    As requested by @fillippone, I stratified data by specific years (2009 - 2020).

    Details:
    Monday:
    Code:
    Summary for variables: feeperkb
         by categories of: year

         year |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         2009 |      51.0    4950.3   33360.4       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0  238095.0
         2010 |      52.0   34904.5  114720.9       0.0       0.0    8211.5       0.0  653126.2
         2011 |      52.0  514649.4 1262784.3  233010.2  142041.8  595944.6   24708.7 9225123.3
         2012 |      53.0  179022.9  120559.2  152690.6  137667.1  175029.6   96503.1  870947.9
         2013 |      52.0  150790.4   70376.0  153020.6  114558.2  174918.1   37592.8  498257.1
         2014 |      52.0   33135.0    8558.4   29954.7   27128.6   36717.2   23751.9   64432.5
         2015 |      52.0   31326.1   15170.5   28566.7   25248.5   33179.7   23250.8  133031.9
         2016 |      52.0   52386.6   16033.0   50726.5   39774.5   60562.8   28054.2   96109.9
         2017 |      52.0  180241.5   93641.3  152725.8  121587.0  202201.9   75191.4  528990.3
         2018 |      53.0   43986.7   76488.3   22626.1   15208.9   28315.9   10945.8  391606.3
         2019 |      52.0   31551.2   24647.7   22422.7   16064.8   37342.7   10473.2  131621.1
         2020 |      20.0   23039.5   19878.1   13969.6   12855.1   27805.3   10461.7   93306.4
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total |     593.0  111365.9  401325.0   37557.2   18009.1  140753.8       0.0 9225123.3
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Tuesday
    Code:
    Summary for variables: feeperkb
         by categories of: year

         year |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         2009 |      51.0   27163.2  190251.5       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0 1359064.7
         2010 |      52.0   36361.9  126942.2       0.0       0.0    1347.8       0.0  664349.7
         2011 |      52.0  336001.7  303561.4  216371.2  130483.8  520788.0   18727.9 1605024.8
         2012 |      52.0  181725.2  105328.0  159116.7  133683.0  187035.7  101777.4  826886.6
         2013 |      53.0  155542.8   92725.8  158850.1  114067.4  175743.3   40950.7  702333.1
         2014 |      52.0   32295.5    8818.4   29382.5   27055.6   34595.3   23929.0   67830.4
         2015 |      52.0   28688.8    3983.1   28478.0   25132.7   32047.0   22796.9   40503.3
         2016 |      52.0   57169.0   29541.9   51534.9   39382.4   63220.8   29632.3  231537.4
         2017 |      52.0  192130.5  104358.7  161890.0  116277.4  247427.9   70813.2  482196.3
         2018 |      52.0   48955.6   87343.1   21424.5   16194.0   31960.9   11611.5  431956.1
         2019 |      53.0   33237.1   24513.7   21238.7   16525.8   41632.0    8691.3  110994.1
         2020 |      20.0   25283.7   24904.3   15019.1   14060.1   23449.1   12935.9  118484.2
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total |     593.0  100150.8  158071.5   38152.3   19496.3  138605.4       0.0 1605024.8
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Wednesday
    Code:
    Summary for variables: feeperkb
         by categories of: year

         year |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         2009 |      51.0       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0
         2010 |      52.0   11677.9   31072.7       0.0       0.0       0.2       0.0  148318.8
         2011 |      52.0  345898.9  339271.4  235424.2  139956.8  507037.1   10606.8 1935712.1
         2012 |      52.0  162495.0   49637.9  152850.4  137417.6  173893.8   97582.9  343365.3
         2013 |      52.0  173264.2  102866.7  169026.2  119091.9  186283.3   44876.7  684132.7
         2014 |      53.0   33121.4    9195.0   29781.2   26979.5   36606.7   24040.2   72236.9
         2015 |      52.0   28705.1    4479.9   27214.6   25292.9   31485.6   23171.0   42320.3
         2016 |      52.0   53150.9   14081.0   53137.4   41509.2   62153.4   29793.3   90628.9
         2017 |      52.0  195654.6  112334.8  159772.1  125666.4  244862.7   78410.2  625547.2
         2018 |      52.0   52139.1   94496.5   22335.3   16411.3   30153.9   11059.8  448499.9
         2019 |      52.0   34481.1   23772.4   23365.3   18116.7   45055.2   11462.5  103487.8
         2020 |      21.0   28038.4   26805.8   18544.2   13994.9   28985.5    8737.1  125343.0
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total |     593.0   96682.2  152792.6   37311.1   19622.8  140122.4       0.0 1935712.1
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Thursday
    Code:
    Summary for variables: feeperkb
         by categories of: year

         year |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         2009 |      51.0     240.8    1719.4       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0   12279.3
         2010 |      52.0   13169.5   43415.6       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0  241310.0
         2011 |      52.0  363820.6  311723.5  245530.3  162098.1  525536.8   12562.5 1614434.0
         2012 |      52.0  191894.8  129888.7  152932.8  130908.1  182110.7  109681.0  805762.0
         2013 |      52.0  162010.1   81951.6  161381.1  113910.1  187210.9   44607.3  495504.9
         2014 |      52.0   32800.1    8631.3   28975.5   26799.8   36254.9   24315.9   60081.2
         2015 |      53.0   29011.0    4709.4   27604.2   25401.5   31488.4   23249.0   43112.7
         2016 |      52.0   52823.4   14638.3   51567.6   41126.1   61675.4   30985.0   93517.2
         2017 |      52.0  197985.0  125115.5  164563.4  115341.3  245580.5   74788.0  805217.0
         2018 |      52.0   48757.4   85759.9   23553.5   16814.6   29984.9   11156.2  435074.6
         2019 |      52.0   34768.6   26378.7   23742.8   17611.0   44549.2   10034.6  125018.8
         2020 |      21.0   31079.3   29168.4   17614.9   14728.3   31110.3    9425.7  119124.5
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total |     593.0  100000.1  155034.9   37832.8   19532.9  137204.1       0.0 1614434.0
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    Friday
    Code:
    Summary for variables: feeperkb
         by categories of: year

         year |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         2009 |      51.0     249.6    1782.3       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0   12728.1
         2010 |      53.0   10407.2   35737.5       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0  237765.1
         2011 |      52.0  323978.6  288721.0  199914.7  144542.6  501429.0    8743.7 1363952.1
         2012 |      52.0  239621.5  282500.6  156698.2  134327.1  198446.6  108030.9 1739244.7
         2013 |      52.0  153132.6   67294.1  155538.9  115835.0  180468.6   46422.6  379982.8
         2014 |      52.0   33993.9   10648.4   30008.9   27327.5   36623.8   23615.4   81961.2
         2015 |      52.0   31893.7   18130.9   28965.8   25591.4   33015.2   23819.8  156067.1
         2016 |      53.0   53017.9   16679.6   53561.4   39157.5   60421.0   26762.0  103608.7
         2017 |      52.0  201265.8  134357.6  167277.1  123086.4  235439.5   68692.6  908621.0
         2018 |      52.0   48192.5   83010.9   23320.5   16717.7   31212.6   11494.1  459456.1
         2019 |      52.0   34543.2   27468.5   23106.5   16874.5   42172.0   11232.5  135576.4
         2020 |      20.0   28665.4   24055.8   16944.6   14609.3   38184.6   10340.2   99857.6
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total |     593.0  100188.7  165738.1   38049.2   19795.5  139654.3       0.0 1739244.7
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    Saturday
    Code:
    Summary for variables: feeperkb
         by categories of: year

         year |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         2009 |      52.0    1965.1   14170.7       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0  102186.5
         2010 |      52.0   32092.7  125612.4       0.0       0.0    4466.9       0.0  790521.1
         2011 |      53.0  317022.6  261008.8  197302.8  139154.7  492533.0    6495.2  964080.3
         2012 |      52.0  166173.6   66467.2  147489.1  127647.4  173937.5  107258.2  442026.9
         2013 |      52.0  147467.4   53945.4  149918.3  113866.7  176124.4   35432.9  277574.8
         2014 |      52.0   32328.0    7143.1   29260.4   27339.0   35645.5   24155.8   57007.6
         2015 |      52.0   30372.5   10512.1   27958.0   25225.3   32855.7   22015.5   94374.6
         2016 |      53.0   50148.5   13575.6   49684.7   38064.4   57658.6   28823.1   86846.1
         2017 |      52.0  186994.1  118988.2  146220.3  113944.3  217920.2   67630.7  722789.4
         2018 |      52.0   41940.1   72920.2   20167.8   15559.9   28546.0    9917.0  389297.9
         2019 |      52.0   26995.6   19331.8   18576.9   13499.9   32719.5    8725.6   83301.4
         2020 |      20.0   20668.8   15182.3   13447.1   11746.9   27872.7    8472.0   65710.5
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total |     594.0   91788.8  135577.6   35897.1   16857.5  129571.5       0.0  964080.3
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Sunday
    Code:
    Summary for variables: feeperkb
         by categories of: year

         year |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         2009 |      51.0       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0
         2010 |      52.0   55886.8  148737.9       0.0       0.0     654.3       0.0  800519.0
         2011 |      52.0  439772.4  787280.4  200565.4  133085.2  625671.2   21181.0 5624557.7
         2012 |      53.0  328402.8 1282878.3  140663.6  123587.4  163576.8   88269.0 9484216.2
         2013 |      52.0  141031.5   49752.2  149606.5  115114.5  172138.3   35983.2  282832.6
         2014 |      52.0   35656.5   31107.0   28378.2   26498.9   35867.7   22862.9  249820.1
         2015 |      52.0   28472.1    5818.3   27330.6   24328.7   31335.8   21057.6   53612.1
         2016 |      52.0   48522.6   13749.4   47761.4   36857.4   59168.6   27127.8   85031.1
         2017 |      53.0  163036.1  111610.9  132054.8   97780.7  183671.3   60490.4  694572.0
         2018 |      52.0   38893.2   68516.1   19472.9   15142.5   30898.4   10467.6  401735.9
         2019 |      52.0   24335.9   16180.8   17025.1   13437.5   28488.2   10260.8   72749.0
         2020 |      20.0   18574.4   14943.4   12402.5   10619.3   23487.8    8738.8   73272.0
    ----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total |     593.0  115803.4  468940.0   34697.5   16324.6  128883.5       0.0 9484216.2
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    Overview:
    • If we take the year 2018 as a reference year, and calculate the percent of changes in median fees between 2018 and 2020, the values are shown below.
    • Monday, Sunday and Saturday are days of week that have most decreasing median fees.
    • percent = (y2020 - y2018)/ y2018*100
    • I dropped 2 years : 2009 and 2010 (because of their 0-values)
    Code:
        +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
         |      dofw    y2011    y2012    y2013   y2014   y2015   y2016    y2017   y2018   y2019   y2020   percent |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      1. |    Monday   233010   152691   153021   29955   28567   50727   152726   22626   22423   13970     -38.3 |
      2. |    Sunday   200565   140664   149607   28378   27331   47761   132055   19473   17025   12403     -36.3 |
      3. |  Saturday   197303   147489   149918   29260   27958   49685   146220   20168   18577   13447     -33.3 |
      4. |   Tuesday   216371   159117   158850   29383   28478   51535   161890   21425   21239   15019     -29.9 |
      5. |    Friday   199915   156698   155539   30009   28966   53561   167277   23321   23107   16945     -27.3 |
         |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
      6. |  Thursday   245530   152933   161381   28976   27604   51568   164563   23554   23743   17615     -25.2 |
      7. | Wednesday   235424   152850   169026   29781   27215   53137   159772   22335   23365   18544       -17 |
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