Charts · Fees
Bitcoin fees right now
What it costs to send bitcoin, how busy the queue is, and how fees have moved this month.
The short version
- Fees are priced per unit of space a transaction takes (sats per virtual byte, sat/vB), not per dollar sent.
- Pay more to be in the next block; pay less and wait when the queue is long.
- The dollar figures below are for a typical payment of about 140 vB (one coin in, a payment plus change out).
Next block…
Within 30 minutes…
Within an hour…
No rush…
Waiting in the queue…
The next blocks
What miners would put in the next six blocks if they were found now: the typical fee rate in each and how many transactions fit.
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Fee rates in mined blocks, past month
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Paying less
- Weekends and late nights (US time) are often quieter, so low-fee transactions confirm sooner.
- For small, everyday payments, Lightning costs a fraction of a cent.
- Most wallets let you raise the fee later if a payment gets stuck (look for "bump fee" or replace-by-fee, RBF).
- If you hold many small amounts, combine them into one when fees are low; spending them later costs less.
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