Check out again the fee on blockchain.info it was calmed down and the sat/b fee was lowered as the price of bitcoin is now pumping again.
Unconfirmed transactions are now down to 117k from 170k+ so this is a good indication that many miners are now back to mine bitcoin.
The lowest sat/b now is this
173 sat/b or more is recommended.
As of writing the unconfirmed transaction was down to 108k already which means theres a change on where miners are already getting back to to their work and I do actually wait for this thing to happen this is why I didn't make any transaction on previous weeks because of ridiculous prices even setting out huge fees wont guarantee you to transfer instantly or on a short duration of time but now everything would really goes back to normal.Lets just wait for a couple of days.
Well today it is now down to 93k and that's an amazing thing. The price of bitcoin get back to it's normal price of $6,700 and many miners are active again to mine bitcoin.
We are now on greener days with bitcoin and this is going to make everyone happy again. Though transactions are still sometimes delay what's good today is the unconfirmed transactions went low and the fees aren't too high.
it is Better today fee back to 153 sat/b Reg and 598 priority but still high i need to pay about 10$ to send 50$ with risky so will wait more .
i think 3 days enough to back to normal mode because unconfirmed transaction down from 108k to 93k in one day
Yesterday i pay high fee and take about 23 Hour to be confirmed so that start to back
I won't pay $10 just to send $50 that's too high for me already. The essence of using bitcoin is to get cheaper fees for transactions or remittances, the high fee is due to the bitcoin cash pump.
But now there is a low priority fee of 100sat/b and I'm checking it from the time and it was good to see that transactions are only taking 1-2 hours before sending it. The value equivalent to dollars is quite high because the price is pumping but compare before bitcoin pumps it is still cheap.
Yes, it is definitely because of the BCH pump. Now that the volume is no longer that high on BCH/BTC the fees have gone down accordingly. If you pay 400 sats/b you'd be getting 1st block confirmation. even 200 sats/b works.
In these situations where the market is in a frenzy, just don't transact for like 10 hours and wait for the thing to cool down, or send with a lower fee and put the tx into an accelerator.
On a side note, in my opinion, it is still so much simpler with bitcoin to transact overseas than to exchange your money into a foreign currency and then go through the painfully long SWIFT transfer process that will take more in fees and exchange rates than even the highest of BTC transaction fees.