Bitcoin Fee Pressure

Live state of Bitcoin's transaction-fee market. From our own bitcoind full node in NYC. Updated every 30 seconds.

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Current state

Low

2 sat/vB

to confirm in the next block

Low Moderate High Severe

Fee tiers

Next block ~10 min 2 sat/vB
Half hour ~30 min 1 sat/vB
Hour ~60 min 1 sat/vB
Economy Several hours 1 sat/vB
Mempool floor Eventually 1 sat/vB

Mempool backlog

34.43 blocks

~344 min to clear · Current tip: 963,121

tip
963,122
963,123
963,124
963,125
963,126
963,127
963,128
963,129
963,130
963,131
963,132
963,133
+ 22 more

Queued txs

73,781

Avg fee

0.2 sat/vB

How we classify state. Each band's upper bound is max(historical_percentile, absolute_floor) of the fastest_fee_sat_vb tier — percentile when the chain has run hot recently, absolute floor when it hasn't. Floors: Low ≤ 5, Moderate ≤ 25, High ≤ 100, Severe otherwise.

Data from our own bitcoind via the Fee Pressure API. Polls every 60 seconds.

Last 7 days, confirmed-block fee rates (hourly)

See full history →
State distribution: Low 100% (1,044) Moderate 0% (3) High 0% (0) Severe 0% (0)

1,047 blocks across 168 hourly buckets, 2026-08-12 to 2026-08-19. Average p50 per bucket, sat/vB.