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

11.56 blocks

~116 min to clear · Current tip: 966,808

tip
966,809
966,810
966,811
966,812
966,813
966,814
966,815
966,816
966,817
966,818
966,819
966,820

Queued txs

36,547

Avg fee

0.4 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 99% (1,051) Moderate 1% (6) High 0% (0) Severe 0% (0)

1,057 blocks across 168 hourly buckets, 2026-09-06 to 2026-09-13. Average p50 per bucket, sat/vB.