[Telegram Bot] Bitcoin Fees - fees and tx tracker

[TryNinja]

Talk with the bot to start:

@BitcoinFeesAlert_bot



Commands:

/alert X - where X is the amount in sats/vbyte that will trigger an alert (a.k.a when hour fees <= X, according to mempool.space).
/fees - sends the current mempool fees (according to mempool.space).
/tx XXXX - triggers a notification when your transaction of id XXXX gets a confirmation on the blockchain.

Every time you get a notification, you need to enable them again with the same /alert X command.

For example: I want to get notified when mempool hour fees <= 2 sats/vbyte, so I will send the command /alert 2. When hour fees <= 2 sats/vbyte, the bot will alert me only ONCE. If I want to get notified again, I will need to re-run the command. This is so you don't get spammed while fees stay below this number.


TODO:

- Let the user choose the "type" of fee he wants to get notified about (high priority, medium priority, hour fee, half-hour fee, etc...).
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TODO:

- Let the user choose the "type" of fee he wants to get notified about (high priority, medium priority, hour fee, half-hour fee, etc...).
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is there any chance to change the avatar image on this bot, to something recognizable and unique making it easier to recognize for those of us who have a large number of channels we follow?
it would be great because, for example, I have some contacts that look almost identical.
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[moneystery]

This is a very helpful bot, because with just a few commands we can get fees in real time which will reduce time compared to finding out about bitcoin fees on other websites or applications. However, it would be even more interesting if this bot could be developed by adding a number of commands such as a set alert price, a significant drop in bitcoin prices, or several commands that could help users. But this bot alone does a great job.

[dzungmobile]

is there any chance to change the avatar image on this bot, to something recognizable and unique making it easier to recognize

Let's check it. Not too good but have fun

When I am available to wear avatar, I will take the second one  
 

[TryNinja]

I also liked the second one. Did you make them? Is it ok if I use it for the bot's avatar?

edit: using, looks great! thanks.

[dzungmobile]

I also liked the second one. Did you make them? Is it ok if I use it for the bot's avatar?

Sure you can.

I did not make it but ordered my friend to make it. From my idea, he made the first one which I don't like so I have to guide him more in details. Eventually we went to the second one.

That file matches perfectly with Telegram avatar which he designed for your bot avatar

I have to ask him to export an avatar-sized file for me. I self-resized and got a blurry one :p

[TryNinja]

Small update: I added a command to track and notify when a transaction gets a confirmation on the blockchain. The bot should check it every ~5 minutes.

/tx <transaction id>

[Synchronice]

Good job, man! I'll definitely use it but I just immediately came up with this one idea. You made the bitcointalk supernotifier bot, so, what do you think about to include the average bitcoin fee at that moment on each reply/mention/merit notification? It will be a good to include bitcoin price too with that. Idk if that's possible or easy or something that users want but I think it's a cool idea.
Also, I think it will be good if we have possibility to configure bot to receive fee notifications either for Legacy Address or SegWit address.

Btw I sent you a pm, hope you won't miss it.

[dzungmobile]

I confirmed that the bot works well 

On Sunday, I received notification from the bot that "Economy fees have dropped below 3 sats/vbyte!". I expected to receive it since Saturday when I saw mempools started to clean up more.

Great bot, TriNinja!

[blue Snow]

Talk with the bot to start:
@BitcoinFeesAlert_bot

I tried it, and the bot begins (Mulai) with my local language, is there auto-language detection?

Hi! Welcome to the BitcoinFeesAlert bot.

Use the command /alert X, where X is the Bitcoin fee in vbyte that you want to be notified about (economy fees only, for now).

You can also use /tx XXXX, where XXXX is the id of the transaction you want to get notified about when its confirmed.

I tried also with /alert 1, I don't know when happen?, because until today it has never been below 1 satoshi, right?, or the same as and below than like this symbol (≤)?

About tx notification, when we received a notification?, is it after 1 confirmed or more than 1?

[Cantsay]

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About tx notification, when we received a notification?, is it after 1 confirmed or more than 1?

You get notified as soon as your transaction has 1 confirmation.

I tried the bot with a tx from blockchair.com that has one confirmation already and I got "transaction already confirmed".

[TryNinja]

I tried it, and the bot begins (Mulai) with my local language, is there auto-language detection?

Probably related to Telegram itself? I've coded the bot entirely in english.

I tried also with /alert 1, I don't know when happen?, because until today it has never been below 1 satoshi, right?, or the same as and below than like this symbol (≤)?

Less or equal, yes. When "economy" fees <= 1.

About tx notification, when we received a notification?, is it after 1 confirmed or more than 1?

1 confirmation.

[paid2]

@TryNinja

Thank you so much for having made this bot !

I was looking for exactly what you made, thank you!  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5444515.msg61895401#msg61895401

Do you think you will include balance modification alert for X address in the future ?
Could be great to have an alert for incoming tx on a said address


Do you still have control of 1NinjabXd5znM5zgTcmxDVzH4w3nbaY16L ?

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Less or equal, yes. When "economy" fees <= 1.

is there a possibility that the default result on /fee alert is not an "Economy" fee?
Such notification is often not usable because the economy fee is not enough to complete the transaction, especially lately when the network is overloaded.
For example, I set the alert to 10 sats/vbyte, and very quickly I received a notification that the fee was below that, but it is very far from reality. So if I'm waiting for a certain fee to make a transaction, information about the "hourly fee" status is more useful to me.

[TryNinja]

Do you think you will include balance modification alert for X address in the future ?
Could be great to have an alert for incoming tx on a said address

Will do that, thanks for the suggestion! Sorry for the delay.

Do you still have control of 1NinjabXd5znM5zgTcmxDVzH4w3nbaY16L ?

I do.

is there a possibility that the default result on /fee alert is not an "Economy" fee?
Such notification is often not usable because the economy fee is not enough to complete the transaction, especially lately when the network is overloaded.

Yep, got an alert for <= 2 sat/vbyte, took a look at the fees and the minimum for next block was around 40 sat/vbyte.

I'll change the default and add the option to let the user choose between fastest, half-hour, hour, etc...

[darkv0rt3x]

There is one other bot in Telegram doing kind of the same. I am curious what would be the difference. I'll use the 2 and will try to check about the differences! It's @cheeserobot.

[dzungmobile]

I am back with my proposal.  

Would you mind adding a warning like "Your fee rate is very low that causes this transaction will probably be dropped off from mempools within next 14 days". It can be helpful for people don't know about risk of transaction dropped from mempools if it is broadcasted with very low fee rate.

A reminder like "Always use Replace-by-Fee (RBF) for your transaction."

[darkv0rt3x]

btw, is the code closed source?

[TryNinja]

Would you mind adding a warning like "Your fee rate is very low that causes this transaction will probably be dropped off from mempools within next 14 days". It can be helpful for people don't know about risk of transaction dropped from mempools if it is broadcasted with very low fee rate.

Noted, I'll see if it's viable.

btw, is the code closed source?

It's open source: https://github.com/ninjastic/BitcoinFeesAlert-bot


Btw, the bot is now using the "hour" fees by default. Other options will come as soon as I stop being lazy.

[Flexystar]

Yep, the bot works just fine.
@TryNinja, I think you should really pick your pace and start creating miraculous bot which will be able to do more than this.

I think you know very what you are doing, it's just that you are limiting yourself. 

I already forwarded the bot link to few friends as I know they will love to see a bot notifying them fees, transaction alerts etc. over notification such as telegram. This saves time by not going online and checking the blockhyper all the time.

Amazing. Good luck for the future developments. Hope you share more updates soon.