Yup, I sent $50 (in BTC) to a currency exchange and receive a fee of $2(in BTC) that should be at 2 months ago only fee less than $1 (in BTC).
Value of bitcoin in terms of fiat doesn't matter on recommended fee to put your transaction in higher priority for getting confirmed within next block. It depends on transaction size which is based on number of inputs and number of outputs in your transaction.
https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ this can give you better understanding regarding relation between fee and size of transaction and it will also help you to understand what is current recommended fee per byte of your transaction which keep changing.
Yes that's a good service, I also recently saw that link from another thread.
I got a question amacar, if you don't mind please.
If the transaction size depends on the number of inputs and outputs does it mean, the older the wallet/address the more transactions it's got then the bigger the transaction sizes would be?
I'm really confused about this since I recently made a new wallet at blockchain.info, it's got 1-2 transactions made but for the last transaction, the fee it recommended was 639/byte (189).
Is that the normal rates these days?(It got very high priority and confirmed really fast)
I don't really need the very fast confirmations so, is there any way I could know the transaction size beforehand? thank you.