Questions tagged [transaction-fees]
This tag should be used for questions related to paying transaction fees in the Bitcoin network.
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Can I be the transaction processor and take in transaction fees as income without mining a Bitcoin?
Can I be the transaction processor and take in transaction fees as income without mining a Bitcoin? Would the fees be so low that it is not practical?
Or is it true that I have to be a miner in order ...
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How can transaction fees be explained in a simple way?
I am reading the book Mastering Bitcoins 2nd Edition by O'Reilly, and it says:
Alice buys a coffee from Bob's Cafe for $1.50, or 0.015 Bitcoin
So Alice pays 0.015 Bitcoin, and Bob gets 0.015 Bitcoin,...
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Could a miner set a maximium transaction fee rate?
Could a miner set a maximimum transaction fee rate? I mean validate only transactions between x and y satoshis/byte?
I know is not clever. Is it possible?
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Comparing UTXO transactions with Accounts transactions
I have seen few websites that compare number of transactions and fees between Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Examples: https://www.flippening.watch/ and https://cryptofees.info/
What does the high number of ...
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bitcoin feeless transactions
The mobile application cashapp specifically says I can send bitcoin to any address anywhere in the world for free.
Coinbase also says they can do off the network transactions instantly and for free as ...
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Hidden fees in a transaction: How to anticipate one and avoid another?
On Bitcoin.org, the page on getting started has a button for "Buy Bitcoin". It links to page with a dialog box that appears to be an interface to the service, MoonPay. MoonPay has a page, &...
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Pros & Cons of Using the “Satoshi” Method to Track User Deposits
In this question user @lungj suggests using "satoshi" as a marker for user deposits.
Another method I’ve seen used on bitcoin is using satoshis as a
marker. For example, when paying for a ...
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I can’t btc money with my blockchain [closed]
So I tried sending out btc on my blockchain app but it keep saying code:-25 error,:bad-txns-input-missingorspent I don’t understand what this is and I would need help on how to solve this thanks in ...
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Keeping Track of User Deposits with Bitcoin
I found the following statements about Bitcoin on the Ethereum SE:
When using Bitcoin one can generate new address per user of service
and save pair (address -> userId), so it is always obvious ...
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Single API to Get Fee Estimates for All Major Cryptocurrencies? [closed]
Many sites provide estimates of miner/gas fees for individual cryptocurrencies. For example, EtherScan provides gas estimates for ETH. BTC Network provides fee estimates for Bitcoin.
Both of these ...
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Best way to store fund on the lightning network
Suppose that someone want to store 0.1 bitcoin on the lightning network for a period of 1 year to use services such as buying and selling things but doesnt know which one and with who yet.
What would ...
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Broadcasting a transaction as a 3rd party
In a scenario I have a signed transaction from A to B and ready to broadcast. As C, I want to broadcast it but the part I am having hard time to understand is as the transaction is already signed and ...
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How long does it take for an unconfirmed transaction to drop from the mempool? [duplicate]
I have a transaction currently in unconfirmed limbo for 24+ hours. It was from an old 0.15 bitcoin core wallet, and I guess the fee was set too low. The old version of bitcoin-qt does not support ...
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Newbie Mistake?
I'm new to crypto. Well, I bought some back in 2017, but just forgot about it.
I just opened a Wirex account and transferred some btc to Prime XBT. I thought it would be cheaper than using Coinbase, ...
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What is the network mempools unconfirmed transaction expiration time?
I sent a bare $1000 multisig transaction using sendrawtransaction with a too low fee.
When I create a new transaction with a higher fee, I m getting txn-mempool-conflict error, and when I use the ...
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What do they mean by “Make sure to send enough to cover any coin transaction fees!”?
When I paid a Bitcoin bill yesterday to Coinpayments.net (that's what they used), which had no problems, I spotted this text:
Make sure to send enough to cover any coin transaction fees!
What ...
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Why does the block explorer show a different fee rate than what I selected in my wallet app?
I know this could have something to do with the fact that I was sending from a lightning wallet, but I would like to know why the transaction on blockchain.com shows my fee as being ~6.5 sats per byte ...
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Why can't default minimum fee rate be changed to 0.1-0.2 sat/vByte?
Main question (focus on this incase you are looking to close it as "needs focus"): Why can't we change default minimum fee rate to something below 1 sat/vByte?
It was done in past: https://...
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Unexplained fee in electrum to localbitcoins transaction
Unexplained fee in electrum to localbitcoins transaction. How to avoid this in future? I was trying to make a transaction from electrum to localbitcoins 120$, paid 57$ fee for the transaction.
https:/...
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Are Bitcoin transaction fees competitive?
I was listening today to their conversation about the transcation fees in Bitcoin and Michael Sailor's understanding stroke me as inaccurate.
Is there any direct incentive within the Bitcoin protocol ...
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Can I verify my own transaction?
I'm waiting since 16/12/2020 and i still waiting in the Mempool. Exists a way how can i verify my own transaction without a Bitcoin miner? Yes, i paid a low fee.
Here you can see my transaction:
https:...
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Strategies to Reduce High Transaction Fees in a Cryptocurrency Marketplace?
I’m building a cryptocurrency marketplace where users mainly buy and sell small ticket items (worth $10 - $50) using cryptocurrency. However, the "miner fees" are making it prohibitively ...
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How to set the most budgetfriendly transaction fee in Electrum?
Since the newer versions of Electrum have more options in setting the transaction fee, what could be the best possible option to send bitcoins in a quick but budget friendly way?
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Which tool can I use to calculate the best fee for a specific time?
Let's say I'm okay with a transaction to be included in a block in about 24h.
The fee is obviously dependent on the network congestion.
Which (online) tools can I use to calculate the optimal fee ...
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electrum increase fee from command line
is it possible to increase fee from command line in electrum? I walked through all electrum commands but can't find such command.
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Set bitcoin fee lower than minimum estimatesmartfee value
Currently when I broadcast transactions, I seem to be unable to do so with a fee below ~10^-4 bitcoin (~$2 at current exchange rate). Any 'conftarget' value between approximately 100 - 1000 yields the ...
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How do I send bitcoin to multiple recipients at once?
How do I send bitcoin to multiple recipients at once? Like this. Also, I would like to know if the reason I see people do this is for privacy reasons? As when I sell items online they usually send the ...
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Is periodically transferring Bitcoin from an exchange to a private wallet cost effective?
I'm new to this, I've read a lot about it and I've decided to start saving money on Bitcoin by buying a fixed amount every month.
I know it is safer to store my Bitcoin on a private wallet instead of ...
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I am new to Bitcoin. Am I being scammed? [duplicate]
I am new to Bitcoin. I got into transaction with this woman I saw on Facebook, Olivia Jessica, a lot were mentioning her in a group so I decided to ask her how to do this thing. She asked me to join ...
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assistance in transaction fee
I need some help in transaction fee in Bitcoin Core.
In Send section there is a message after Transaction fee saying "Warning: Fee estimation is currently not possible." Why is it there? ...
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Why is the source code fee calculated higher than the current bitcoin fee amount?
In python bit (https://github.com/ofek/bit/), when sending a message, it is properly 80 bytes or less (https://developer.bitcoin.org/devguide/transactions.html) fee is If it is a 4-byte character ...
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Do I have to pay taxes on a Bitcoin investment when I'm withdrawing it to my US bank account before I actually received the money?
I am new to Bitcoin investment trading, I recently invested $500 in 401trade.com and got $19,000 setting in their account, I went to withdraw $18,000 and they said I had to pay $200 in taxes and gave ...
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Where can I find a survey on different fee estimation algorithms?
I am looking for a comparison or summary of different fee estimation algorithms. Does anyone know of one? I would like to see what the best starting point is in order to see where optimization can be ...
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Sending multiple output transaction with total output exceed the total input value
I am still confused about whether it is still a valid transaction for multiple output transactions if the total output of the transaction exceeds the amount of total input.
For example, there are two ...
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bitcoin-qt ignored user input for fee calculation
My blockchain isn't synced yet. Thus, fee calculation didn't work. Therefore, I chose user defined fee and entered what btc.com suggested.
But my bitcoin-qt (v0.20.1) went for 255 satoshis instead of ...
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How do you reliably estimate mining fees?
I'm asking this question because sites seem to yield widely different estimates.
For instance, if I want a transaction to be accepted within 6 blocks, this is what I currently have to pay according to ...
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Better fee estimation and fee/tx/mempool management in wallets
Right now mempool has 65 MB of transactions waiting for miners to be included in blocks. 90% of the transactions are below 10 sat/vbyte.
I am observing this trend from last few days and think it will ...
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Change -mempoolexpiry in BitcoinCore 0.20.1
I have accidentally made a transaction with a very low fee (5 sat/byte) and I doubt that it will be confirmed any time soon.
Replace-By-Fee is not available since my transaction has no change.
Abandon ...
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Outrageous miners fees
My BRD wallet just charged a 27 dollar miners fee TO SEND 50 dollars worth of bitcoin!! 1/3 of 75 bucks went to a miners fee? 55e7f51a96ecd8d25a1566346bff76e2985a5aed4fe279e44d75f991cf0a993a
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Plan to decrease the fees [closed]
Is there a future plan to make the fees lower ? Will BTC block size increase after the 5G being rolled out in the world ? We could really use a Little bigger block while also developing lighting ...
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Transaction taking a long time to confirm, now it doesn't even show up on Bitcoin Explorer [duplicate]
UPDATE: Electrum now says the transaction is "Local" and now I have an option to "broadcast", should I do that?
OP:
So, I'm trying to spend a small amount of bitcoin on a website (...
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Can you explain some of the dynamics that drive the variations in mempool depth?
I often see mempool graphs such as Jochen Hoenicke's that show significant fluctuations in mempool depth and hence the fee needed to get into upcoming blocks. Can you explain some of the dynamics that ...
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What are fee_method and fee_level in Electrum's getfeerate RPC call?
I couldn't find any documentation on this.
I found that the options for fee_method are eta, static and mempool by reading the source code. But it's still not clear to me how fee_level relates to the ...
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On my first shopping via bitcoin I get “The fee for this transaction seems unusually high. (20%)” What to do about it?
I have some bitcoins in a local Electrum wallet and wanted to do my first shopping with bitcoin from a shop offering payment via bitpay for an item costing (in USD) 20 dollar.
So I went through the ...
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How can I troubleshoot whether an unconfirmed transaction that seems stuck is a problem on my end or just from high volume on mempool?
Never had transaction hang unconfirmed like this before. Granted its only been a few hours but it's not like I skimped on fees either. I always choose the default electrum fee, but when it got stuck I ...
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Will I save on miner and network fees for sending btc if I import my bitpay wallet to another wallet like electrum or blockchain?
I have a bitpay wallet that has received many small transactions. I want to send all of the funds to my trading platform, but the fees are too high after the first send each day which is as low as 1%. ...
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Given a bitcoin block, what's the easiest way to determine the minimum net fee rate (including ancestors) for transactions in that block?
Given a bitcoin block, what's the easiest way to determine the minimum net fee rate (including ancestors) for transactions in that block?
A naive approach would be to just find the minimum fee rate ...
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Sending regtest Bitcoin fails with an error message. How do I resolve this error? [duplicate]
When I try to send regtest Bitcoin using bitcoin-cli:
./bitcoin-cli -regtest sendtoaddress bc1q09vm5lfy0j5reeulh4x5752q25uqqvz34hufdl 0.1
I get the error message:
error code: -6
error message:
Fee ...
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Can we use fee rate less than 1 sat/vbyte?
Is it possible to create, sign and broadcast a transaction with fee rate less than 1 sat/vbyte?
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How to get a wallet feerate (sat/byte) of an unconfirmed transaction?
On block explorers such as blockchain.com, each unconfirmed transaction has a desired feerate set by the wallet such as 58.000 sat/B. This is not to be confused with the actual final fee calculation.
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