Questions tagged [transaction-fees]
Transaction fees are paid to miners by the sender of a transaction. This money rewards miners for the work they do in putting transactions into a specific order and adding them to new blocks to be added to the list of transactions known as the blockchain.
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Why do protocol developers work on maximizing miner revenue?
A Twitter user asks: "Why are so many [protocol engineers] so worried about miner revenue? [...] IMO, it would be best to focus on what the end users want, not large corporation wants." (...
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bitcoin-cli listtransactions fee amount is way off, why?
I am using the default signet network, my txid is 3923927eb3b6213bab5d0bee8364a87eafe357cb4d42ce6c587f0372735c7ff0.
bitcoin-cli listtransactions shows a fee of 0.00596777 when in reality the fee is 0....
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Network fee accuracy question [duplicate]
I have an investor telling me he made 7k in bitcoin from a 200$ investment today. He says there is a network fee of 500$ to withdraw the funds for me. Is this or can this be accurate?
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How does subtractfeefrom work?
From the description of Bitcoin Core, subtractfeefrom is a parameter to define which recipient address would opt-in to receive less and contribute to pay the fee
Here is a usecase:
Alex has one UTXO ...
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how to calclate the fee of a segwit transaction? [duplicate]
I am using bitcoin-js to construct a PSBT transaction.
Suppose address A has 10 UTXOs, each containing 0.0001 BTC.
Now I want to construct a transaction to send 0.0005 BTC to address B.
If I use 5 of ...
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How can a replace occur with a tx with lower fee and feerate?
I have seen a tx A get replaced by a tx B, where B had a lower fee and feerate than A and it was broadcasted later. How is it possible?
These are the txs details:
Tx A: segwit, ̶t̶a̶p̶r̶o̶o̶t̶, ...
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Bitcoin Core: "Increasing transaction fee failed (Unable to create transaction. Insufficient funds)"
I sent a RBF transaction, and it's in the mempool. I'd like to increase the fee so it confirms sooner. ¿Why does Bitcoin Core say:
Increasing transaction fee failed (Unable to create transaction. ...
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Increase the fees in regtest
I have a Regtest environment with some Lightning nodes. I need to make the fees go up a lot to do some tests on how the Lightning nodes behave with high fees.
What would be the most efficient/simple ...
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What is the correct way to calculate testnet BTC fees?
Recently, the fees on Testnet seem to be going wild. I tried to send 20,000 satoshi and it cost me 27,000 satoshi. I used a feerate based on blockstream.info's fee estimate and calculated the fee ...
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Transaction is unconfirmed [duplicate]
This transaction is unconfirmed, is there any thing I can do to make it faster? Is the BTC recoverable if it never gets confirmed?
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Why do some transactions wildly overpay fees?
It's very common to see transactions that pay extremely high fee rates, easily 10, 100, or more times the any reasonable high-priority fee rate.
Who makes these transactions, and why do they overbid ...
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Is it possible for the commit and reveal transaction to be on the same block?
I'm new to the inscribing process and I noticed there were two transactions required for inscribing. Is it possible to have these on the same block? or is there a way to control the tx fee on the ...
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Is ByteTrust and legit company [duplicate]
I would like to know if ByteTrust is legit! I have ask for a withdrawal from my account since 01/05/2024. First they ask for a deposit of 20% of the total sum (which I submitted) in order to take the ...
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Is it even possible to spend a stash of 1-sat UTXOs?
In terms of UTXO management, I have the following extreme example to illustrate my question. Let's say I have 1 BTC with 100 million UTXOs of 1 sat each (or even 10 million UTXOs with 10 sats each). ...
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RoboSats without any BTC to start with?
I want to buy BTC without KYC. Therefore I want to use RoboSats. However, RS charge a small fee (to be paid in sats) for each order. Since I don't have BTC to begin with, I cannot pay the fee. Is ...
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