Bitcoin Fee Pressure History

Pre-aggregated fee-rate stats per week bucket from our own bitcoind 28 via getblockstats. This is what fees blocks actually confirmed at — not what the mempool was predicting.

Blocks in window

264,383

260 week buckets

Avg p50

15.5 sat/vB

Peak p90

3940 sat/vB

Floor p10

0 sat/vB

State distribution (by block, across the window)

52%

35%

11%

Low 51.9% (137,293 blocks) Moderate 35.1% (92,669 blocks) High 10.6% (28,048 blocks) Severe 2.4% (6,373 blocks)

Fee-rate percentiles over time

Logarithmic Y-axis — fees during ordinals storms can be 100× calm-chain rates. p10 / p50 / p90 shown by default; toggle others in the legend. Each point is one week bucket: p10 = floor (min during bucket), p50 = average median (typical block), p90 = peak (worst spike in bucket).

Window: 2021-05-24T00:00:00 to 2026-05-11T00:00:00 UTC · 264,383 blocks aggregated into 260 week buckets.

Data via the ChainQuery.com signal APIs Bitcoin Fee Pressure (GET /v1/signals/chain/block-fees/aggregate?bucket=week). Per-block detail also available at /v1/signals/chain/block-fees/history (10K-row cap).

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