Best time of day to send crypto from ledger to exchange?

Quote from: JamesDaniel90 on May 06, 2023, 10:09:44 AM

I am very new to all this all my crypto is on ledger never heard of mempool.

You are new quite alright, but just like o_e_l_e_o said, you are ignoring the advice of people trying to help you out, how can you say you've never heard of mempool when it was mentioned quite a lot of times in the previous thread you started and has been mention quite a lot of times in this thread too, it shows you are not reading, but only posting. The mempool is different from your ledger, your ledger is your HW wallet, whilst the mempool is just a "waiting room" for unconfirmed transactions (i hope you didn't mistake it for a type of wallet).

Quote from: JamesDaniel90 on May 06, 2023, 11:10:59 AM

So as I have selected 40 sats per byte when the lowest I was being offered was 140, I should expect to wait a few days for the transaction to complete?

As has already been said, nobody can know for sure the exact time you're going to wait, just be checking the mempool whilst being patient, and if the transaction is still unconfirmed, you can bump the fee, but that's only if your enabled RBF.

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on May 06, 2023, 06:43:53 PM

High fees are annoying, but you need to look at a bigger picture. If Bitcoin suddenly went up and you want to dump it, it's better to pay a high fee (like $5-10) and get high profit than to wait for lower fee and risk the price crashing and your lost opportunity being higher than the saved fee.

Well, i don't think this is the most appropriate way to view transaction fees (whether high or low), every Bitcoin user should be happy to pay transaction fees and take it to mean them giving miners an incentive (or encouraging them) to mine Bitcoin and keep the Bitcoin network functioning well and most importantly, securely.

Update - 36 hours since the transaction and i have still not received my Bitcoin.

Is there a way I can track the progress and how long there is left until it completes or can I only wait?

Quote from: JamesDaniel90 on May 07, 2023, 08:04:28 PM

Update - 36 hours since the transaction and i have still not received my Bitcoin.

Is there a way I can track the progress and how long there is left until it completes or can I only wait?

If the transaction appears to be stuck or unconfirmed, it is possible that the fee you paid was too low, causing it to be stuck in the mempool waiting for confirmation. In this case, you may want to consider using a Replace-by-fee (RBF) feature to increase the transaction fee and speed up the confirmation process.

If you want to keep tabs on the status and congestion of the Bitcoin network, you can check out the mempool.space website. It's a pretty handy tool for tracking your Bitcoin transactions and getting a sense of how busy the network is at any given time.

Quote from: Charles-Tim on May 03, 2023, 06:54:20 AM

Mempool are less congested during weekends almost all the time, one of the best time to make low fee transactions with faster confirmation.

Mempool observer to know the fee rate to use for faster confirmation:

For beginners: https://mempool.space
For advanced users: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/

Well for most weeks on weekends, it's often low but this weekend isn't one of those. The mempool is very congested and has toppled today as against what it was yesterday.

With OP talking about a time in the day, there virtually isn't a specific timing to it but, you could always try initiating transactions that could span over the night if you've got intent to use a low fee and when it doesn't confirm by morning, you be ready to boost your fee rate and broadcast to the network.

The better way to apply timing to initiating a transaction would be as Charles-Tim stated, using mempool observer.

I think there is no exact time in day to be set as "best time" I always look at the mempool.space to figure it out the best fee and to see is the network is congestion or not and use native segwit address so you get the cheaper fee if your transaction is stuck there is method that you can read it here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5422456.msg62037281#msg62037281 Replace by fee or Child Pay For parent

What is going on with the fees lately?

I have just checked again to see how much it would cost to send more BTC to Coinbase and the 3 options are SLOW - 505 sat per byte MEDIUM - 506 & FAST - 557 Shocked

Quote from: JamesDaniel90 on May 08, 2023, 08:57:00 AM

Why are you asking the exact same question time and time again mate, Ordinals/BRC20 tokens are clogging the Bitcoin network and making transaction fees shoot up, there are quite a lot of threads discussing the same thing on the forum, even in the topic you created; thus you should no longer be asking "what's going on with fees"? But rather what's the solution to it, which i am afraid has to be either paying a high fee for higher priority, or low fee if you have time on your hands for your transaction to be confirmed (though you might want to enable RBF in case you get tired of waiting). The good part of things, as i have read though, is that this hype might not last too long (though don't take my word for it), thus things might return back to "normal" sooner or later.

It is just first time I have seen fees this high.

2 weeks ago my fee was 40 now it is over 13x that for the same transaction.

I have just checked my ledger and my BTC is back in my portfolio so this means it just didnt go through at the rate I requested I take it?

Can i just confirm that now the transaction didnt go through and the BTC has gone back into my portfolio is that the end of that transaction or can it still go through once the 40 sats per byte is matched?

Quote from: JamesDaniel90 on May 08, 2023, 05:16:05 PM

@JamesDaniel90, for the umpteenth time, please read what other users have been telling you. Yes, that is the end of that transaction if you can see the funds you wanted to spend back inside your address, it means that your transaction was rejected, and that is because the fee was too low, thus there is no way your transaction can go through any longer. If it is still pending, then it can possibly go through, but you could choose to use RBF to hasten things up.

Having said that, if you really want to spend that funds again, check the mempool before spending to know the most suitable fee rate to choose for your transaction to be confirmed as soon as possible.

These are interesting forecasts from experienced members. Some of you are predicting the best time to be during weekends. Could this be because weekends are work free days so much people will not be online to trade? I guess other factors can also determine when it is best to send crypto from ledger like when price us low. Please pardon my ignorance, if I'm not making much sense here,. I'm just contributing as a layman.

The best time varies at the moment because of the fee if you're going to send bitcoin to an exchange. Just check at most times --> https://mempool.space/ and read how much the fees at the moment.

Right now, from $7-$10 fee it's down to $5.52 for the highest priority transaction. So, if you think that has got down and you think it's best then do it.

And that means the best time is when you're ready to send it and to take these fees.

Update - almost 5 days since the transaction and it has still not been confirmed and the BTC is no longer showing in my ledger.

The fee I selected was 37.2 and looking at mempool the rates have fallen a lot with Low priority being 38 , Medium 42 & High 45.

Does this mean I am now close to my transaction confirming?

Also, I can see that I have opted in to Replace by fee (RBF) so how do I use this option and pay higher fee to speed up the transaction or is it done automatically after set amount of time has passed?

Quote from: JamesDaniel90 on May 11, 2023, 09:29:02 PM

Yeah, likely.

But the fees do still varies from time to time as I can see, the cheapest and low priority is around 43sats/byte and that's above the fee that you've set.

If it's not yet dropped by the network then you're likely to get confirmed as soon as these prio fees go down. Did you used viabtc tool for your transaction and tried to push it with that?

Update - The BTC transaction finally went through 6 hours ago.

I paid a low fee but took a lot longer than I expected so will keep that in mind for future. I wasnt in any rush so didn’t mind too much how long it took.