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

28.65 blocks

~286 min to clear · Current tip: 963,827

tip
963,828
963,829
963,830
963,831
963,832
963,833
963,834
963,835
963,836
963,837
963,838
963,839
+ 16 more

Queued txs

23,602

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 98% (964) Moderate 2% (16) High 0% (0) Severe 0% (0)

980 blocks across 168 hourly buckets, 2026-08-17 to 2026-08-24. Average p50 per bucket, sat/vB.