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

4 sat/vB

to confirm in the next block

Low Moderate High Severe

Fee tiers

Next block ~10 min 4 sat/vB

Half hour ~30 min 3 sat/vB

Hour ~60 min 1 sat/vB

Economy Several hours 1 sat/vB

Mempool floor Eventually 1 sat/vB

Mempool backlog

2.35 blocks

~23 min to clear · Current tip: 952,236

tip

952,237

952,238

952,239

Queued txs

6,230

Avg fee

2.3 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% (950) Moderate 2% (20) High 0% (0) Severe 0% (0)

970 blocks across 168 hourly buckets, 2026-05-27 to 2026-06-03. Average p50 per bucket, sat/vB.