[Sep 2025]Mempool empty, Consolidate your small inputs @0.11 sat/vbyte

[LoyceV]

Bump: 0.15 sat/vbyte transactions are being confirmed in recent blocks.

Make that 0.15 sat/vbyte one block from the tip:

I can't remember ever seeing fees down to 0.001 BTC per block in this overview. Most of it is still data spam and data spam consolidations.

[stwenhao]

Most of it is still data spam and data spam consolidations.

It doesn't surprise me at all. If fees will be too low, then users will use them to push transactions, which they otherwise wouldn't push on-chain.

For example: if free transactions would be allowed, and displayed by many block explorers, then we would see constantly filled mempools with around 300 MB of data, or other maximum value, accepted by a given node.

Also, there is one important aspect in all of that: "relayed" doesn't mean "confirmed". Even if some transaction at 0.1 sat/vB is "relayed", then it can be constantly broadcasted and dropped every two weeks, before actually landing in a block. A good example is how long you had to wait to sweep 40 satoshis:

Deposit confirmed: 2025-09-12 08:21:47
Coins moved again: 2025-10-12 08:51:31

See? A month between getting some dust, and spending it at 0.21 sat/vB.

And, like it was with 1 sat/vB: using just 1.01 sat/vB, or even 1.02 sat/vB, was quite profitable, when a lot of people were stuck at exactly 1.00 sat/vB. The same can be true here: if we will finally reach 0.1 sat/vB in practice, then still: using 0.101 sat/vB, or 0.102 sat/vB may be a better idea, if there will be a wall of 100 MB or 200 MB of transactions with minimal fees.

[LoyceV]

Most of it is still data spam and data spam consolidations.

It doesn't surprise me at all. If fees will be too low, then users will use them to push transactions, which they otherwise wouldn't push on-chain.

In the past few years, even when fees were much higher, the majority (about 80%) of all blockspace was filled with data spam most of the time. As long as it's profitable for the spammers, they don't care about the cost.

[LoyceV]

Bump: 0.15 sat/vbyte is on the table again I'll test to see how long my 0.153 sat/vbyte transaction takes to confirm.

Update: it confirmed in less than 2 hours. I paid only 27 sats for a transaction with 2 inputs and 1 output.

[Pmalek]

Bump: 0.15 sat/vbyte is on the table again I'll test to see how long my 0.153 sat/vbyte transaction takes to confirm.

Update: it confirmed in less than 2 hours. I paid only 27 sats for a transaction with 2 inputs and 1 output.

Even transactions paying 0.14 sat/vByte have been confirmed in several blocks mined in the last 24 hours and perhaps even before that. According to the data on mempool.space, transactions paying 0.14 sat/vByte are only two or three blocks away right now. It's been a long time since I have seen such a great opportunity to consolidate inputs as in the last couple of days. Too bad that I already did mine in the past.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Bump: 0.15 sat/vbyte is on the table again I'll test to see how long my 0.153 sat/vbyte transaction takes to confirm.

Update: it confirmed in less than 2 hours. I paid only 27 sats for a transaction with 2 inputs and 1 output.

That’s crazy, I haven’t moved any Bitcoin since October. It wasn’t long ago that even 1 sat/vbyte seemed a dream.
The price of Bitcoin has been disappointing, to me at least but you can’t deny that nothing else beats it. Where else could you move $5bn across the world on a Sunday night for less than $200 fee?

[BlackHatCoiner]

In less than five blocks from now, the mempool is emptied after years. Expect the usual "network is doomed" narrative again.

[philipma1957]

In less than five blocks from now, the mempool is emptied after years. Expect the usual "network is doomed" narrative again.

we got as low as 260 tx in the entire mempool which pretty much is amazing.

or simply a lot of off chain movements.

[LoyceV]

Bump: 0.11 sat/vbyte transactions have been confirmed in recent blocks.