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

1 sat/vB

to confirm in the next block

Low Moderate High Severe

Fee tiers

Next block ~10 min 1 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

0.49 blocks

~5 min to clear · Current tip: 949,085

tip

949,086

Queued txs

1,707

Avg fee

3.8 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)

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State distribution: Low 96% (1,000) Moderate 4% (44) High 0% (0) Severe 0% (0)

1,044 blocks across 168 hourly buckets, 2026-05-05 to 2026-05-12. Average p50 per bucket, sat/vB.