Electrum not letting me send bitcoin

[scapo777]

I have about 0.0009445 bitcoin in my electrum wallet, which is currently valued at about $16. Im trying to simply send it to my other wallet using dynamic fees, it says the maximum amount of bitcoin i can send is 0?? is 0.0009445 bitcoin not enough to send, i thought it was i click "max" and it goes to 0 and says all 0.0009445 bitcoin will be the fee. When i manually adjust the fee to around 0.000244 which i thought was a average fee for a small transaction like that a error message appears and says "the transaction was rejected by network rules./n/n66: mempool fee not met" Any help appreciated thanks. Currently on Electrum 3.0.3

[kahc]

I have about 0.0009445 bitcoin in my electrum wallet, which is currently valued at about $16. Im trying to simply send it to my other wallet using dynamic fees, it says the maximum amount of bitcoin i can send is 0?? is 0.0009445 bitcoin not enough to send, i thought it was i click "max" and it goes to 0 and says all 0.0009445 bitcoin will be the fee. When i manually adjust the fee to around 0.000244 which i thought was a average fee for a small transaction like that a error message appears and says "the transaction was rejected by network rules./n/n66: mempool fee not met" Any help appreciated thanks. Currently on Electrum 3.0.3

The network is heavily congested right now, so some nodes have probably set a higher minimum fee.
You can try with a different server or increase the fee.

Look at the average fee, I wouldn't recommend to set the fee lower than 250 satoshis/byte if you want it to confirm in the nearest days.

[scapo777]

so your telling me to send $16 in bitcoin its going to cost $16? i dont think so

[kahc]

so your telling me to send $16 in bitcoin its going to cost $16? i dont think so

Well it depends on how many inputs/outputs you have.
Best thing to do is to wait it out until the network calms down. Right now there are 200000+ unconfirmed transactions.

[stevegee58]

so your telling me to send $16 in bitcoin its going to cost $16? i dont think so

You'd better think so.  The mining fees have nothing to do with the value against the USD.  The fees are Satoshis/byte.  The number of bytes depends on the number of inputs in the transaction.  If your 0.0009445 BTC was collected from e.g. faucets then you have many small inputs that make it up.  More inputs = more bytes in the transaction.

You're right to be frustrated but it's the way things are right now due to heavy traffic.