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Topic: Fees - top 3 best choices for lowest fees? - page 2. (Read 296 times)

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Spear the bees
December 25, 2020, 04:16:14 AM
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The wallet will calculate the size and thus the fees automatically for you.
It is always better to manually check the mempool via a few useful websites. If you're looking for speed/efficiency for one-block confirmations, I would recommend adding 5-10% more than the current highest fee bucket depending on the network (i.e. if it barely confirms at 6 sat/byte, push it to 7 or 8; at 60 s/b, try 66 to 72).

Bitcoin gives you the tools to financial freedom: you have the power to control your money.
legendary
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Crypto Swap Exchange
December 25, 2020, 03:48:55 AM
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So, for various reasons, you'll want to cash out (as fiat) some of your BTC savings and the questions would be: how much one will pay for fees per such transaction?
Before answering this question, can you tell how one can calculate the fee for buying BTC? I see the fee is calculated based on the transaction data (size) to be processed -> how to calculate that and minimize the fee cost?

Once you bought BTC, what would be the fee for sending this further to another wallet (let's say a storage wallet)?
Definitely not custodial wallets. Most custodial wallets can benefit from imposing higher than appropriate fees when their users withdraw and the transaction is a batched transaction, which means that you're really paying more than what's needed/spent on the fees.

As for the wallets to use, you can choose from Electrum, Wasabi wallet, Bitcoin Core, they're my recommendation. For the lowest fees, try to use Segwit. The wallet will calculate the size and thus the fees automatically for you. Since the size is a direct factor of the amount of fees that you pay, try to reduce the number of inputs used per transaction by consolidating smaller UTXOs periodically when the fees are low. For example, if you receive 3 payments a day, you can consolidate those many UTXOs and you'll need to use lesser inputs when you need to spend your funds in the future. The benefits is most evident when you're trying to send funds when the fees are high.

If you want a rough estimate of the size, try using this: https://jlopp.github.io/bitcoin-transaction-size-calculator/. You have to understand what the values means. You don't have to know the size, just follow my recommendations and you'll be fine.

I can't comment on how exchanges charge for the fees, that's dependent on where you live and which exchange you have access to.
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December 25, 2020, 03:13:24 AM
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Hello guys,

I don't see any pinned post here about fees and my search is giving not so relevant results about it.

I still don't imagine that there will be soon enough too many online shops allowing BTC as payment since there are enough that even Paypal do not accept or other methods but payment by card (and not even all cards in case your billing address is not on their white list).

So, for various reasons, you'll want to cash out (as fiat) some of your BTC savings and the questions would be: how much one will pay for fees per such transaction?
Before answering this question, can you tell how one can calculate the fee for buying BTC? I see the fee is calculated based on the transaction data (size) to be processed -> how to calculate that and minimize the fee cost?

Once you bought BTC, what would be the fee for sending this further to another wallet (let's say a storage wallet)?

For all, can you tell your top3 best options / solutions / services for lowest fees? (to buy, to store, to exchange in fiat)

many thanks!
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