Topic: [GUIDE] How to send BTC for cheap! (And stop paying $25 for withdrawals) (Read 349 times)

Yeah, the thread is to advocate for people to use their own wallets and stop overpaying stupid fees from exchanges


Doesn't matter, the point of this guide is to pay the LEAST to get on the NEXT block. For sure, you can set your tx to 1sat/vbyte and wait days/weeks, but if you want to get on the next block asap, this guide is what you are looking for


I didn't say that. I just said how to pay the least to get your tx in the next block.


You are misunderstanding. This guide is to pay the least to get in that "first class carriage". I'm not saying to just pay 1 sat/vbyte and be done with it. I'm just saying to look at the mempool to see how much you need to barely get the tx on the NEXT block.


I think you are misunderstanding me. I'm not saying to wait until 1sat/vbyte gets you on the next block. I'm saying to look at mempool to see what's the minimum to get you on the next block.

For example, take a look at the mempool right now:



As you can see, right now even 1sat/vbyte can get you on the next block. And you can see there are A TON of transactions that are OVERPAYING anywhere from 3 sats/vbyte up to 251 sats/vbyte which is INSANE!!

My guide is about how much one would need to pay to get BARELY on the NEXT mined block. And in this case, right now 1sat/vbyte will get you on the next block!

The goal of this guide is that people stop paying 3sats/vbyte or 251 sats/vbyte per transaction!

Look at the pic above and see teh distribution of fees! People are overpaying 3sats/vbyte up to 251 sats/vbyte!

Now, let's take a few minutes later and the mempool got clogged a little bit and now it looks like:



So, let's say that your tx you set it at 1sat/vbyte, but it didn't confirm and the mempool got a little bit clogged, so what you now see is that you would need to bump the fee to around 1.8sats/vbyte or even 2sats/vbyte with the rbf feature and that will get you in the next block.

Sure, you can also leave the tx at 1sat/vbyte but that will probably take a little more time due to the mempool size increasing.


Yeah, that's the best solution. I agree.

Yes, but the Binance chain is a lot more worse than just an altcoin. Everything's controlled by Binance. They can censor, reverse transactions, increase the supply whenever they want, forbid from certain Binance users to acquiring tokens etc. That being said it's kinda ironic to promote "chain validation" and "blockchain technology" from a so centralized situation; it's a conspiracy to the technology.

Too late. Charles just opened a can of worms. 

Let's not make this topic about franky1's interpretation of Bitcoin and LN. Use Is LN Bitcoin? franky1: About scaling, on-chain and off-chain for that.

Bitcoin is not only about the unbank, it is peer-to-peer means of payment without third party. Remember that people use it for investment as well, the key reason for it adoption.

You are still getting this wrong, 1 sat/vbyte transactions are getting confirmed early this time around, but the daily avarage fee today is $1.682 currently while I can use just less than $0.1 to make 1 input and 2 output transaction get confirmed very soon. People are using a kind of wallet that do not set the fee accurately for them and some people just want to pay slightly above other people so that miners can first include their transactions into block. The daily avarage fee is the reality but not correctly dipicting how bitcoin fee is lower than worth people are paying.

Which problem are you talking about regarding bitcoin transaction fee? Only exchanges that chargesi extra than normal is the problem.

Explain how lightning network is altnet. You are absolutely wrong.

It seems like this is going towards a scaling discussion. First, the average fee in the last year could have been much lower than $1 per transaction. I'm not sure how you got that $1 value, and although I wouldn't be surprised that for instance large exchanges raise the average, it wasn't necessary. In the past year, I paid less than $0.10 per transaction on average.
One way or another, 3 billion people making on-chain transactions will lead to a huge amount of data, and I don't think I'd still have my own full client if that would happen.

Litecoin may have low fees, but they'll have the same problem if their blockchain gets too large. Luckily, they have a 1 MB block limit at 2.5 minutes per block, so fees will just rise if the number of transactions goes up.

Hey, I made a topic for this: Is LN Bitcoin? franky1: About scaling, on-chain and off-chain

And 111 sat is enough to make a transaction (one input, one output).

Great post op. Honestly, the best way to avoid paying high fees for BTC withdrawals is by ignoring the recommended fees in any wallet, site etc because they are almost always inaccurate.

I usually check sites like Bitcoinfees.net which is one of my favorite sites for BTC fees basically. These fees are usually a lot lower when compared to the recommended fees.

Good on you OP! Also, remember that even if mempool gets a little full and the recommended fee for next block ups to 2 or 3 sats, or even higher, you shouldn't need to worry too long about your 1 sat/byte tx.

Even last week at 8 sats recommended, I went ahead within fee. Took some hours but everything cleared in half a day. Obviously if you need urgent shit rbf saves yr ass but really, if you move around or consolidate especially, wouldn't worry too much about min fee.

i am in britain.. our minimum wage does deem bitcoin fee's to be reasonable. but i am not talking about the 900million combined population of the 'elitist' countries of uk, us, europe.  the idea of bitcoin was a payment network for the unbanked. the 3 BILLION population whereby the average fee(currently over $1) is a days wage.

you are also forgetting that those that see bitcoin fee's as a problem. are also going to run into that problem buying bitcoin.. and then locking up bitcoin to then go play with silly msat balance on LN.
meaning most will just avoid bitcoin in the first place and use another altcoin like litecoin as their venture into crypto and then to play around on LN

i know i know, you and your fellow altnet supporting crusaders see no problem in pretending LN is bitcoin(when its not) but happily accept anyone that wants to exit bitcoin to play with LN and then be locked in forever untill their balance is zero. or until they atomic swap to another altcoin as their method of exiting LN.
yes i know the business model. yes its boring and unoriginal yes its a bait and switch.
but again you and your crusaders of altnet adoration brigade keep forgetting one thing..
this topic is about solutions to BITCOIN FEE's not work arounds to avoid using bitcoin as much.at all by presenting other networks or telling people to just stop using bitcoin for daily use.. as those stall/delay/avoidance tactics are not solutions to help bitcoin. they are business bait and switch plans to help other networks adoption rates

I do not go much further into knowing about the Binance Chain (BEP2) and most especially the Binance Smart Chain (BEP20). About using ERC20 network, it means you are sending the coin (which people thought is bitcoin but not, it is ERC20 token on ethereum blockchain) on ethereum network. On noncustododial wallet, such coins like renBTC and wBTC are example. They are not bitcoin, though the more people invest in it, the more the increase in bitcoin price, but because it is a token on ethereum blockchain, just like other tokens also, the more you invest on ERC20 tokens like renBTC, wBTC and others like DeFi tokens on ethereum blockchain, the more the price of ethereum is increasing. Also about BEP2 which is Binance chain and BEP20 which is Binance Smart Chain, all these chains are also used to make sure that as people are buying such tokens, the main chain coin which is BNB will be increasing in price. So as people are investigating on the tokens, the more the price of the main chain coin of the network is increasing. So, pooya87 is very right about this.

The transaction weight will increase but that is the reason why it is advisable to consolidate small inputs but while coin control can still be used to manually select inputs (do not get me wrong, I mean the UTXO) you want to use to make a transaction.

If you think you can not pay bitcoin transaction fee (which is low imo), then you can use the layer 2 solution which is lightning network. The mempool has been congested for over a year now, and if congested, there would be difficult adjustment on every 2016 blocks. Congested mempool also will still later become not congested again

this guide is impractical and full of utopian dream
for these reasons

a. 'withdrawing' means your taking out of an exchange meaning you got no control of their fee structure.

b. if the guide meant spending from own wallet. well then you come into the problems of not everyone only has one UTXO to spend. many have many UTXO's they need to combine when spending.

c. also trying to suggest people shouldnt just buy what they want when they want it. but to wait patiently for weeks or months for a low mempool day, totally negates the purpose of the utility of a currency..

d. the change of any minority of the community paying less. just then fills in the crowd of those already paying less. thus causing those paying less to have to pay more to compete at their bottom level.

EG a train could have 2 carriages. one for first class and one for second class.. by telling everyone to get off the first class carriage and try squeezing into the second class carriage. does not keeo the second class carriage running cheaply. instead the fight over seats makes people end up paying more for the privilege of seating in the second class carriage or waiting even longer. thus average train fee's rise

e. the end result is although when seeing the fees go from $2->$0.50
$2.00/\       /\
$1.50   \    /
$1.00    \  /
$0.50     \/
and choosing to wait for that 'bottom' . if everyone done this guess what the end result of the next fee correction
          $2.50 /\
$2.00/\       /
$1.50   \    /
$1.00    \_/
$0.50    
yep. the bottom moves up because more are then competing at those times. thus the usual rise in competition then raises the overall price of the competition window

an easier solution is this..
stop letting the devs put cludgy code into bitcoin that causes a 4x of tx fee's, stop the devs from removal of old fee formulae, then insist the devs put in cleaner stuff that actually helps make bitcoin more useful day to day(on the bitcoin network), without all the stupid politics of making bitcoin far more worse to use daily just to promote other networks as things people should use instead

People who invest in or use BNB or other altcoins can not say they do it because of Binance or any exchange. They are responsible for their reasons of investment or choosing a coin for their transaction.

After Binance, many exchanges create their own tokens and own chains. They follow Binance by shilling their own token and chain and provide promotion with good bonus for users who use their tokens for trading fee or withdrawal. People decide to use or not. If they decide to use exchange token and chain, they should not say it's because of exchange promotion even they don't like those tokens or chains. If they want to take bonus, they will have to take risk.

Altcoin chains are less secured than Bitcoin network.

Mainly everything that centralized exchanges like Binance do is to make money. The fact that they advertise shitcoins as "cheaper options to withdraw bitcoin" is because they want to advertise their own shitcoin called BNB. In fact there are a lot of things they encourage people to do using BNB which is the only reason this shitcoin has been pumped. Who makes the most profit when it pumps? Obviously Binance since they create it out of thin air and sell it to newbies.

They don't charge deposit fee (for small input consolidation) but they combine them all in withdrawal fee which they charge both input consolidation, service operation and maintenance as well as withdrawal fee + on-chain transaction fee. They can tell you many reasons why they charge such ridiculous withdrawal fee with which they get benefit certainly.

Some exchanges charge very high fee: https://withdrawalfees.com/coins/bitcoin

If you know how to broadcast your own transaction, you can avoid such fee. How? Use non custodial wallet, activate coin control feature and observe mempool

Weekend days are good to broadcast your transactions with low fee rates.

It's totally different from a withdrawal on the exchange and having a transaction fee on transferring your Bitcoin to another wallet.  Less fee for the non-custodial wallets which is you can put manually the fee rather than on the exchange wallet which is expected to have huge fees.
Just simple, those exchange platforms making ridiculous fees is a part of their business which is totally different from the non-custodial wallet.

Always check the mempool space every making such transactions to know the recent transaction fees.
It will help you to avoid your transaction being stuck and will take too long to confirm, if you are not in a hurry, 1-2 sats/vbyte is enough per transaction.

It means blocks aren't full, so even the minimum fee (1 sat/vbyte) is enough for a fast confirmation. There is no "slow" in this case, unless fees suddenly go up or mining the next block takes a long time.

is this normal?  So the 1sat/byte fee is that low for that time period whether you want the transaction to be slow, medium or priority?

I AGREE. Literally, all of those options are marketed as the "cheaper" bitcoin options to withdraw from binance.

It's like if somehow, binance wanted to hoard bitcoin by making ridiculous withdrawal fees.

I never had problem in sending coins because I never had to pay this much amount of fees for small transactions at least. I am using mycelium wallet and the fees are really cheap.

At the time of writing this post these are the fees for Mycellium Wallet:
Priority ~10 min, Fees 0.56 USD (9 sat per byte)
Normal ~30 minute, 0.44 USD
Economic ~2 hours, 0.23 USD
Low-priority ~ 3 hours, 0.09 USD (1 sat per byte)

This is almost free for me. Now depending on much money you send, Im pretty sure this much fee per byte is really enough. I think there is no difference between what you stated and pre-existing wallet fees.

But it's good to understand the way it works on block base pattern.

It's best to avoid those exchanges entirely. Binance for instance charges this much (and tries to scam you into accepting their own made-up token as fake Bitcoin instead of real Bitcoin), while for instance Kraken charges less than $1 to withdraw Bitcoin on-chain.

I paid less than $0.05 in fee on my last Bitcoin transaction.

None of that is Bitcoin. We should be careful not to make people believe they're the same.

Sending bitcoin using BSC (BEP20), TRC20 or any other network other than bitcoin network is not actually bitcoin, it is altcoin. The only way to send bitcoin using a low transaction fee on exchanges is to make use of lightning network.

It is as simple as you can use withdrawal fee for exchanges while transaction fee for noncustododial wallet. Withdrawal fee includes the transaction fee and the additional fee charged by the exchanges.

Could be, but it's to encourage people to use non-custodial wallets and pay peanuts per transaction

One thing to take into account, if one is trying to get into the next block, is that it’s important to pay attention to time related factors on those charts. One such factor would be the amount of time the next block has been building-up for, and the number of TXs within so far. The other would be the data for the past few blocks (TXs, fee range, time, how full).

I’ve encountered some occasions when I wanted (yet not really needed) to get a TX into the next block, and whatever fee one sets that might "barely" get you into the next block, may not do so eventually, especially if the block takes a longish amount of time to be mined (well over the average 10 min.).

I’d normally complement the fee decision with a view of Johoe's Bitcoin Mempool Statistics, seeing the distribution of the number of TXs paying what fees is sats/vB, over recent moments in time. Eventually, if I really want to try to get into the next block, I may decide to overpay a bit (normally it’s going to be a few more cents), which is less valuable than the personal time I take staring at the screen, waiting for the TX to be included in a given block.

First of all you should never report bitcoin transaction fees in terms of fiat or even in terms of bitcoin. You should always report them in terms of bitcoin per size (sat/vbytes) because the raw values in fiat or bitcoin are meaningless.
For example in normal circumstances with fees being around 4 sat/vbyte a simple transaction with roughly 30 multisig inputs would require $20 at about $41k bitcoin price.

Your title is also wrong since you include the term "withdrawal" which is the act of taking money out of an account and whatever fee you pay there has nothing to do with bitcoin or its transaction fees. In reality you are paying for the centralized service (like the exchange) you are using.

Consolidate small inputs
Transaction fee - Everything in one

If you have many small inputs, you should choose time when the Bitcoin network gives you low transaction fee and consolidate your small inputs. It is your good preparation for your transaction in future because after consolidating, you will have smaller size for  your transaction later that will help to reduce transaction fee.

I thought that this is all about exchange where you can able to withdraw Bitcoin at a cheaper fee. Like others said exchanges with expensive withdrawal fees like on Binance its 0.0005BTC which is very expensive you can only get a cheaper withdrawal fee if you send it through another network but only other exchanges have different networks or receive them through Metamask that support other networks like BSC Bep20, TRC20 or other networks that offers cheap transaction fee.


Actually, you don't need to worry about the transaction fee today because it's totally 1sat/byte it's not sometimes but the fee is always 1sat/byte.

Also, take note if you want to pay cheaper always use Segwit addresses.

I always check mempool before sending but never bothered at that graph in red hehe. I would have simply chosen 2 sats per vbyte as the bare minimum instead of 1.8 for simplicity.

Newbies may still find your guide confusing so maybe add there what fee will most likely get their transaction mined in the next block.

That should be on custodial exchanges. Any noncustododial wallet that has such poor fee estimation algorithm should not be used, though I have not seen one before which is noncustodial and charge as high as that. But, like I have once implied, it is still good to check the mempool before making transaction.

Yeah but i've known some people paying like $20 per tx which is ridiculous! That's why i made this guide

Really simple, but effective

Do not get this wrong, the high fee of $25 and higher are on custodial exchanges which charges more excessively than usual. On noncustododial wallets, the fee is low. Reputable noncustododial wallets should have good fee estimation algorithm, but there is nothing bad to first check the mempool truly.

With feerate of 5 sat/vbyte and bitcoin at $42600, the fee paid to get transaction confirmed in the next block is $0.29, while the mempool is still less congested than this as well often. I have made 1 sat/vbyte transactions lately (not even only lately but since days, weeks and months ago) with less than $0.1 deducted as fee.

https://mempool.space for beginners
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,24h,weight for advanced users

Most wallets do not have replace-by-fee, that is why I will suggest Electrum wallet which has it. Many bitcoin wallet transaction are not supporting replace-by-fee and one of the reasons not to use many of them.

I do always set out RBF feature when it comes to transactions or setting up small fees. I do always have that habit on checking on mempool.space before transacting.
I do always check the no. of transactions even though the set fees were high but if a certain block do only have few transactions then the next block suggested fees
would be ideal but if you are really that willing to wait up for several blocks before it would push through then its up to your choice but nowadays
tx fees are too cheap or not something to worried upon.

Hey fellas, today I'm going to share a guide on how to save a TON of SATOSHIS per btc transaction.

For the well-established crypto guys this is probably already known, but I just don't like how people keep saying that paying with bitcoin is expensive, when in reality is REALLY cheap.

Everyone knows that one can pay like 1-2 sats/vbyte, though sometimes, if you really want to move your coins fast you may want target the next block to be mined and in that case I always look at the mempool and see what kind of fee I would need to pay to just BARELY get in the next block.

It's like the cheapest way to get your tx confirmed paying the least.

I usually go to sites like: https://mempool.space/mempool-block/0 to see how much I would need to pay to get my tx in the next block.



For example, in that pic, I would first create a tx for around 1.8 sats/vbyte and if the mempool got clogged and 1.8 sats/vbyte wasn't enough to be on the next block, I would just increase the fee using the RBF feature

Also, make sure your tx has the RBF feature or else you would get stuck with the 1.8sats/vbyte and would probably take a few blocks to get it confirmed.

Hopefully this was helpful