Minimum transaction fee Bitcoin
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This is a Blockchain Quick Bit, where we cover the basics of a topic, or product, to help you understand it better. This Quick Bit is intended to help you learn about bitcoin transaction fees. Bitcoin transaction fees are one of the many benefits for consumers and merchants to utilize bitcoin, and is an attractive aspect of the digital currency. Currently bitcoin transaction fees can average to around .04 cents USD (or 0.0001 BTC) per transaction.
Bitcoin transactions are in place as an incentive to miners when validating bitcoin blocks. One of the reasons there is a fee is because the larger the transaction data size, the longer and more energy it will take miners to validate the data. Transactions with higher transaction fees tend to be validated faster in the blockchain. Conversely, transactions with low or zero transaction fees tend to be validated more slowly, or eventually will get rejected.
- It is smaller than 1, 000 bytes.
- All outputs are 0.01 BTC or larger.
- Its priority is large enough (see the Technical Info section below)
If you are unsure about the size of your transaction, it is very affordable and worthwhile to include transaction fees with your bitcoin transactions. It helps to increase the likelihood that your transaction will be processed quickly. Technically, a transaction can be processed with zero mining fees, but there’s a chance that miners won’t validate the transaction, as there is no incentive for them to do it.
Luckily, the Blockchain Wallet by default includes the appropriate amount of transaction fees using Quick Send. If however you are using Custom Send, you will have to enter in the transaction fee amount manually. To read more about sending bitcoins through the Blockchain Wallet, please read our tutorial.
