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Topic: Transaction fees got higher ? (Read 671 times)

full member
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June 16, 2016, 09:12:01 AM
#6
Ok, thank you all for the good replies, now I will check before if I have an urgent transaction to see if the blockchain is jammed or not and put the fee accordingly.
hero member
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June 16, 2016, 09:08:35 AM
#5
How more unconfirmed transactions there are the longer you can wait for it got processed. I found on this forum a nice website http://www.bitcoinqueue.com/ you can read more about it here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoinqueuecom-real-time-queue-charts-1511347. There you can easily see how much unconfirmed transaction there are on what time and how you can calculate the fees.

legendary
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June 16, 2016, 08:58:12 AM
#4
Hello, I used to do transactions with 25 sat/byte and it would be confirmed in 10 minutes at max. Now I use 60 sat/byte and it takes hours to confirm, did the miners raise their fees for confirming transactions ?
No, blocks are getting filled to the brim, not a sign of them raising their criteria for fee. The problem is the huge influx of transactions that pays a higher or equal fee than you. You can try to use bitcoinfees.21.co as a estimate for TX fee.
Shouldn't fees be a bit lower now that Bitcoin is more expensive ?
No, they can choose not to do that. If they did set a limit, they would likely have no effect on the confirmation times unless its a collective effort by many big miners. But anyway, pools usually don't regulate them unless there is a need (eg. Huge and obvious spam attacks).
hero member
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June 16, 2016, 06:08:25 AM
#3
I didn't really hear about any increase in fees or anything similar.
It jut depends on the number of transactions at that very specific time. Sometimes they are so many (really a lot) that miners can't catch up with the transactions which leads to delay in confirmations.
legendary
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June 16, 2016, 05:56:41 AM
#2
Network is congested like it has been for months, sometimes it gets really bad.

Check these:

http://www.bitcoinqueue.com/
https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions
https://btc.com/stats/unconfirmed-tx
full member
Activity: 196
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June 16, 2016, 05:19:25 AM
#1
Hello, I used to do transactions with 25 sat/byte and it would be confirmed in 10 minutes at max. Now I use 60 sat/byte and it takes hours to confirm, did the miners raise their fees for confirming transactions ?
Shouldn't fees be a bit lower now that Bitcoin is more expensive ?
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