Questions tagged [transaction-fees]
This tag should be used for questions related to paying transaction fees in the Bitcoin network.
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What's the most efficient way to create a raw transaction with a specific fee rate?
There seems to be a chicken and egg problem when it comes to creating a transaction that has a specific fee rate (sat/kW).
In order to set a specific fee rate, you need to know what the total weight ...
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Pending Transactions in Electrum
I downloaded the new version of Electrum (4.0.2) and when I sent coin to my other wallet, I forgot to choose/add mining fees. Now the transaction is in Pending and has been for the last six hours. The ...
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transaction (s) not going through due to low fees selected [duplicate]
I'm having a problem with a bitcoin transaction (not through btcpay, but i don't know where else to turn to). I sent 0.06btc from my wallet to my father (20 hours ago), and stupid as i am, decided to ...
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Accepting 0 confirm transactions with a high enough transaction fee
Scenario:
Bob sends some bitcoin with a $1 fee
Alice double spends bob's transaction with a $5 fee
A new block is found.
On an uncongested network with an average tx fee of ~20 cents. Which ...
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bitcoin node take transactions fee and validate them [closed]
a bitcoin node check transactions and validate them . does it take transaction s fee. when validate transactions how much bitcoin transaction fees for a node.and possible reduce fees in a bitcoin node
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How small can a payment be while still adding value to your wallet?
If you receive 1 satoshi (0.00000001 bitcoin) in a transaction then adding it as an input to a larger transaction would add more than 1 satoshi to the transaction fee. This means the 1 satoshi shows ...
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Is there a way to determine the optimal size of a batched transaction to save on fees?
I've been looking at other questions about fees and batching, but it seems no one asked if there is some way to determine the optimal size of a transaction to save on fees (assuming all inputs are ...
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Relation between transaction fees and inputs [duplicate]
So this might appear as a duplicate of some of the other questions on this stackexchange, but I feel most of the questions have failed to ask a question that I am really interested in.
I want to ...
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How to get address type(format). Need to calculate vsize and fee
Help me please. I need to calculate vsize and multiply it by the function result estimatesmartfee.
To calculate vsize, I implement a formula like this https://jlopp.github.io/bitcoin-transaction-size-...
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Who bears the transaction fee for settling HTLC in Lightning Network?
Given a channel that exist between Alice and Bob, where Alice wants to transfer 0.0001 BTC to Bob. Alice makes HTLC payment to Bob contingent to the secret for the payment hash within a timelock of ...
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How accurate is 'estimatesmartfee' in bitcoin-core?
Method of estimatesmartfee is very simple and easy to use and understand. But I want to know how accurate this function really is? It would be great help if you can provide a link to article or ...
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How Bitcoin-Core estimates Transaction fee?
I want to know how Bitcoin-Core estimates the Transaction fee and what factors it takes into account to estimatesmartfee. What is the formula that it uses? Can you also refer me Bitcoin-Core files ...
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Does descendant size affect transaction fees?
While calculating the transaction fee miners usually take ancestor size into the account. But does the descendant/output also affect the transaction fee calculation? Is descendant count correlated to ...
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How can I move bitcoin from one exchange to another without mining fees?
I have held bitcoin since 2010.
At the time coinbase opened one could type in the bitcoin address and public and private keys from paper into their wallet and voila the coins were available for ...
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Why do miners choose low fee rate transactions sometimes?
Miners prefer high fee rate transactions to low fee rate ones, but the part which I don't understand is why miners pick a low fee rate transaction that has been waiting for hours in the mempool into ...
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number of inputs or outputs affect bitcoin transaction fee?
I would like to know how inputs and outputs affects my bitcoin transaction fee using legacy address, and how using a segwit address will decrease the same transaction?
and how they will be ...
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Who sets the fees for a transaction?
Can I send a transaction with zero fees? And if I could, what would happen? Would miners ignore my request? Who sets the price of fees for transactions?
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Input/Output size for various transaction types [duplicate]
What are input/output sizes for various transaction types?
I see some numbers like 210 byte for input for p2sh-p2wpkh here (How do virtual size, stripped size and raw size compare between legacy ...
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Explain Coinomi and Edge fee difference?
I was looking at two Bitcoin wallets, Coinomi and Edge.
When setting the same custom fee for both, I see a difference in the final fee reported.
As an example, Edge wallet shows a fee of $3.13 (at ...
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Problems Setting a Transaction Fee on a Per Transaction Basis Bitcoind
I've spent hours and hours trying to find a solution to this problem, with no success.
Using Bitcoin Core on a Linux machine, so using bitcoin-cli to process commands back to the daemon.
Here's what ...
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In the future, if I pay a coffee with a very low fee, will it ever be paid?
So this is the thing, I am just learning about feedrates and how the miners pick their transactions with higher fees, so they can get more money. But, what will happen in the future when people pay ...
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blockchain says Not enough funds
i have 30-40 $ in my account
now i have pay for something but when i add 20$ amount i say Not enough funds.
and when i click on maximum it fill the field by 4.15$
what is the problem and how can i ...
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Why is a minRelayTxFee of 1000 sat/kb not equivalent to 250 sat/kw?
Naively, we would expect a minRelayTxFee of 1000 sat/kb to correspond to 250 sat/kw. However, apparently this is not so according to this issue (ACINQ), which also references this issue (c-lightning). ...
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Fee to send $350. There were 225 bytes
How much would the fee be to send $350 to someone? The person is trying to tell me it would cost $270? The bytes were 225
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How to calculate fee in BitcoinJS raw transaction?
I have a transaction with 3 inputs and 2 outputs. 1output is the recipient and the other output is change address. How should I calculate the fee and apply it to output?
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How many times has the dust limit and minRelayTxFee changed?
I understand that there's no minimum tx fee or minimum tx output amount in the consensus rules. However, the default minimum values for a transaction to be considered 'Standard' in Bitcoin Core have ...
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How to open channel with output of closing channel? [Lightning Network]
How can I automatically open a new channel while closing another, avoiding to create an unnecessary intermediate transaction?
Do any wallets support it at the moment, or would I have to do it with a ...
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What were 'high-priority' transactions in Bitcoin Core v0.9?
I came across these release notes for Bitcoin Core 0.9 and saw this quote under 'Transaction Fees'. Does this distinction between 'high-priority' and 'highest-fee' transactions still exist? What ...
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After last bitcoin is mined, can miner(s) with nefarious reasons kill bitcoin by holding fees thereby deflating Bitcoin eventually to zero?
Just hypothetically speaking, once there is no more rewards and we transition entirely into transaction fee regime, if a miner (or group of miners) with unlimited supply of electricity, computing ...
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How to make transaction in btc rpc
Probably been asked a lot, but I'm unable to find answer. I wanted to ask, how to do I send from btc rpc to another address inside or outside rpc.
I been looking at these calls sendtoaddress , ...
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Calculating fee rate of tx returned by fundrawtransaction
I'm passing an unfunded proposed tx and feeRate param to fundrawtransaction which gives me back the hex of the tx with inputs selected and its fee. I'm not passing a conf_target or estimate_mode. I ...
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Strange BTC rate behavior when buying bitcoins
I have decided to buy some bitcoins using the Bitcoin.com wallet app and I have just received the invoice for my transaction of 1000 EUR to BTC.
The rate of the BTC for the last days is always around ...
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What is the incentive to use bitcoin due to transaction fees?
Apologies for any naivety in the question, as my understanding of the subject is still basic.
My understanding is that once all the coins have been mined, the incentive for miners comes solely from ...
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Resources of a miner's reward in Bitcoin?
To compensate the miner who could solve the PoW as the first one, they will receive some bitcoins as a reward for keeping them motivated due to the costs related to mining process (electricity and ...
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I've found two mined txs with no fee
I was debugging my little project and I've found this pair of txs without fees (they caused an alarm):
[txId=e8f6f08430ab6b1f3e645f499cf90c69acf2eb8a8d9766abb9d76314f29209dd, fees=0, weight=879600], [...
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How miner deduct Transactions fees from transaction?
How is it possible for a miners to deduct the transactions fees from the UTXO output which is locked by locking script or encumbrances?
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Why are there equal send transactions for each receive on Bitcoin Core?
I've lunched a new Bitcoin core wallet, and generated some addresses using it. Then I tried to receive some BTC to these address, and then, found out if I receive some BTC, there are equal send ...
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Creating a unconfirmed bitcoin transaction
I know that it's sounds ridiculous, but i need to create an unconfirmed bitcoin transaction that will be unconfirmed for 2+ hours.I came to a conclusion that i need to create a 0 fee transactions but ...
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How is the size of a bitcoin transaction calculated
From what I understand, the fees set on bitcoin transaction are based on a recommended fee (mostly, from a 3rd party service) per byte of the transaction size. What I am curious about is how do ...
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Calculate transaction fee for external addresses which doesn't belong to my local bitcoin-core server?
I am doing transaction on addresses which are created outside of my local bitcoin-core server using third party lib. I am having its private/public key. I am
able to create raw transaction using "...
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How do I calculate transaction fee for call to createpsbt()?
When my user invokes my app, he passes as an input parameter the desired value of the TX fee in satoshis per byte. I create a PSBT by calling createpsbt(). I exert complete control over the ...
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What happens if the commitment tx fee is too low?
How often are commitment tx fees negotiated?
Is it every time a payment is made and a new commitment transaction is formed?
What about if there are no payments but both nodes see that the on chain ...
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Calculating the cost to send bitcoin?
This is a follow-up post to this question.
I am using Electrum to send Bitcoin. From what I can gather, it doesn't seem like there is a way to know your "inputs" upfront. The inputs are the various ...
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Intermittent error “min relay fee not met” even with decent fee and custom Electrumx+Bitcoind
I have an automated system that sends BTC payments via Electrum for a client.
Now, it happens again and again that payments keep failing with "min relay fee not met" (RPC call failed: {"code":-32603,"...
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Transaction unconfirmed after almost 16 hours [duplicate]
Please help. I was sent about 0.01762886 BTC about 16 hours ago an it still isn't confirmed yet. Transaction id: a4d0485bdc31657610db67b81ce62af54b460ed020bf12ba6bff4dbeb582be9c
I need this urgently. ...
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Can a non-miner third party help other people's transactions to confirm faster?
If I recall correctly, in 2017, when the mempool was full, there were some guys bumping other people sent transactions that were stuck in the mempool.
Is that possible? How does that work?
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How to get concerned specific unspent(coin selection algorithm) from list of unspents in a wallet to calculate transaction size
I have a problem to calculate dynamic transaction fees. The problem which i am facing is to calculate the transaction size.
When i have one unspent in my wallet it is too easy to calculate transaction ...
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What stopping miner from altering value in transaction to increase transaction fee?
I'm learning bitcoin through this book "Mastering Bitcoin, 2nd Edition by Andreas M. Antonopoulos". I'm at Chapter 6 "Transactions".
Here is my doubt:
Example there is node A, received transaction ...
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“Relay fee” error when sending funds from one account to another
I have a problem with bitcoin in sending payments from one user to another user. When I try to send, I get the error txfee cannot be less than min relay tx fee (0.00001000 BTC/kB).
Please help with ...
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-fallbackfee option in sendtoaddress
I'm trying to send some bitcoins using bitcoin-cli API, but bitcoin core tells me that Fallbackfee is disabled. How can I set a value for fallbackfee?
I've tried to specify it like
bitcoin-cli ...
