High tx fee has historically marked the sell-off. Is this time different??

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Try talking.com

What is that ? Does it predict the bitcoin's next big move ? Or you just being sarcastic

Bitcoin is still above $26000.

The imp. support for me is 26500 (on daily candlesticks) . Below this, its all impulsive candles made to the upside with not much support upto 20k. Im afraid if it will do a free fall to 20k again.

Let's see $25k first before we talk of a upside to $20k'ish or even lower. But I would agree that the high fees that we have seen this week might be a trigger why the price suddenly goes down from $29k->$26,700.

Maybe it frustrates some newbies to push the sell button and then hedge it to something like stable coins or other crypto. But if you look at the mempool, it's not as clogged as before. And maybe those who are spamming the network has really bad intentions in the first place, to create this chaos that we are seeing right now. Obviously, as who is to blame? it's the ordinals and inscriptions and BRC-20 clogging the network with their intentionally low transaction but high fee tx.

[rby]

I've always seen that whenever the bitcoin tx fee soars sky high, it marks the beginning of a new sell-off cycle. Are we going to repeat it again this time? Who is to blame ? Pepe sh*t ? Ordinals ? Check the image below for reference. I'd like to know what ppl think about this.

A careful examination of the chart above will show a tactical spike in transaction fees in the first quarter of 2018. This was accompanied by sudden sell off. While I will strongly attribute this as a result shaking faith in bitcoin.  But 3yrs later in the second quarter of 2021 same scenario happened with much more advanced effect which I can also attribute to the aftermath of covid-19.
Down to 2023, and using myself as an example. I haven't made any bitcoin withdrawals since this high withdrawal fee and it therefore means that this mempool congestion does not encourage withdrawal, so why will the price go down?
Ok! It might be as a result of people converting bitcoin to altcoins in exchanges before withdrawal.
Meanwhile, we have nothing to fear hence bitcoin hasn't crossed the super support which is $25k.

[STT]

Good data to consider and cross reference but its probably most relevant to volume occurring in that sell.  The spike in 2017 I think forced prices higher ironically, reason being a lack of liquidity was caused by high fees meaning less sellers to feed demand and spiking the price in a feedback loop type effect.  That was my take, I think the excessive rise in transactions then was artificial as a kind of malicious attempt to show other blockchains with larger capacity for transactions as superior.
  We cannot say all points on this graph are equal as BTC has adapted over time and become more capable of carrying transactions in a variety of ways such as LN.

[Husires]

What happened was repeated 3 times, and those times were related to the end of a cycle or the beginning of a price cycle, and therefore it is logical to understand that its impact was bad on prices by leading to a correction, but it is wrong to rely on it as a long-term influence.
At the end of 2017 when the fees went up, the price of bitcoin was much higher than it was at the beginning of the year. Likewise, the same thing in the middle of the year 2022.

As far as we can conclude that high fees mean that a short-term correction is expected, but it does not tell us anything long-term.
There is a small problem now is that we do not know whether the increase in fees will be instantaneous or sustainable?

[Baofeng]

What happened was repeated 3 times, and those times were related to the end of a cycle or the beginning of a price cycle, and therefore it is logical to understand that its impact was bad on prices by leading to a correction, but it is wrong to rely on it as a long-term influence.
At the end of 2017 when the fees went up, the price of bitcoin was much higher than it was at the beginning of the year. Likewise, the same thing in the middle of the year 2022.

As far as we can conclude that high fees mean that a short-term correction is expected, but it does not tell us anything long-term.
There is a small problem now is that we do not know whether the increase in fees will be instantaneous or sustainable?

We seems to be back to "normal", not the 1 sat/vB transaction fees, but I think it will be like 10 sat/vb or higher now. I know, it's has balloon so much and we all know who is the culprit. And as you questioned it, will it be sustainable? or the bitcoin core dev team will do something again similar to 2017 debates and what not.

And we are not even in the bull run yet, so just imagine what will be the fee when we starts going parabolic. And what will be the entity behind this spam attack will do, for sure we all know that their aim of. And so if they manage to time their attack again in the bull run, it's going to be a big problem for average joe investors/traders as we will have to pay higher fees which is not good.

The price though is still on the sideways, $26k-$27k in the last week or so.

[thecodebear]

OP, no.

Crashes didn't occur because tx fees went up. Tx fees went up and crashes occurred because of the mania phase of the bull market coming and then ending.


The bear market just ended two months ago. Bull market will continue for another 2 to 2.5 years. A spam attack on Bitcoin that lasted like 2 days has nothing to do with historical end-of-bullrun crashes. At tx fees have been back to $1-$2 for a whlie now.

You're using data in entirely the wrong way here to ask if a crash is coming.

[palle11]

At tx fees have been back to $1-$2 for a whlie now.

Yeah I could notice that. Highest fee for priority is now between 5-7$ depending on the setting and speed you want. Like you said I also don't believe that high fees was the reason for sell off because even doing that then requires high fee processing. It was normal for a drop to complete, price has started dropping from two months back before ordinal issues but is getting weigh better now and the congestion is clearing up.

[dragonvslinux]

OP, no.

Crashes didn't occur because tx fees went up. Tx fees went up and crashes occurred because of the mania phase of the bull market coming and then ending.

I'm glad someone recognises the obvious. As I already said in this thread, the time-frames don't much up for high fees and a sell-off. Price has continued to rise during high fee periods as well as correct during lower fee periods. If we were to ignore the fees, it'd be hardly surprising to see price correcting after a 100% rise at the $30K resistance level, that is not only a 1-year resistance level, but also acted as support for 18 months prior to this. It's seems obvious that this is a lot more significant than the cost of transactions affecting price. There's instead about 2.5 years worth of price history that's a lot more relevant.

At tx fees have been back to $1-$2 for a whlie now.

Exactly. It's been over a week since fees are clearing for around $1 fee (26/27 sats/vB) within a few hours, which seems entirely reasonable to me. Notably price has recovered since...

You're using data in entirely the wrong way here to ask if a crash is coming.

This.

[fzkto]

At tx fees have been back to $1-$2 for a whlie now.

Yeah I could notice that. Highest fee for priority is now between 5-7$ depending on the setting and speed you want. Like you said I also don't believe that high fees was the reason for sell off because even doing that then requires high fee processing. It was normal for a drop to complete, price has started dropping from two months back before ordinal issues but is getting weigh better now and the congestion is clearing up.

Still, the increased commissions coincided with the price drop. Now the mem pool is not too busy and the price is fine again. But the whole BRC-20 situation is not over, so I would not hope that the mem pool will be the same as before and we will have to pay high commissions for a long time to come. There is a feeling that this is done on purpose because bitcoin tokens are useless trash.

[dragonvslinux]

At tx fees have been back to $1-$2 for a whlie now.

Yeah I could notice that. Highest fee for priority is now between 5-7$ depending on the setting and speed you want. Like you said I also don't believe that high fees was the reason for sell off because even doing that then requires high fee processing. It was normal for a drop to complete, price has started dropping from two months back before ordinal issues but is getting weigh better now and the congestion is clearing up.

Still, the increased commissions coincided with the price drop. Now the mem pool is not too busy and the price is fine again.

Yes the mempool has cleared out somewhat, but doesn't look fine to me in the bullish sense. Price is turning $27K that was previous support for around 2 months into new resistance and struggling to find support from the 200 WMA around $26K. So if anything, you could argue that the decreased usage in Bitcoin has caused price to struggle to move higher, but I wouldn't bother to make such an argument myself as price is simply correcting to where there is volume support that starts around $25K with the bulk of it around $23K. Regardless of transaction fees, this would of happened regardless imo.

[Hamphser]

At tx fees have been back to $1-$2 for a whlie now.

Yeah I could notice that. Highest fee for priority is now between 5-7$ depending on the setting and speed you want. Like you said I also don't believe that high fees was the reason for sell off because even doing that then requires high fee processing. It was normal for a drop to complete, price has started dropping from two months back before ordinal issues but is getting weigh better now and the congestion is clearing up.

Still, the increased commissions coincided with the price drop. Now the mem pool is not too busy and the price is fine again.

Yes the mempool has cleared out somewhat, but doesn't look fine to me in the bullish sense. Price is turning $27K that was previous support for around 2 months into new resistance and struggling to find support from the 200 WMA around $26K. So if anything, you could argue that the decreased usage in Bitcoin has caused price to struggle to move higher, but I wouldn't bother to make such an argument myself as price is simply correcting to where there is volume support that starts around $25K with the bulk of it around $23K. Regardless of transaction fees, this would of happened regardless imo.

I dont see the relevance about the fees is soaring high and making that kind of correlation in speaking whether we would be having a bearish run or bullish one. We do have that recent Ordinal
issue or condition on which it did really make out that clogged into the network. Basing up on chartings then it wasnt really that affected that much since the price isnt really that moving
on huge gaps or really off the charts.It do rather slows out on the movement. On the time that the price is stagnant on 27+ and if it do goes below on the line but the movement
or volatility isnt really that much on that time.

The fees now is really going back to normal, although it isnt really that sitting around 1-10 sats/byte at least but it is  really better rather than on paying up $10
per transaction. Its not something talking about sell off on this time because Bitcoin cant really be totally be just that predictable movement since in the first place.

[AmoreJaz]

OP, no.

Crashes didn't occur because tx fees went up. Tx fees went up and crashes occurred because of the mania phase of the bull market coming and then ending.

The bear market just ended two months ago. Bull market will continue for another 2 to 2.5 years. A spam attack on Bitcoin that lasted like 2 days has nothing to do with historical end-of-bullrun crashes. At tx fees have been back to $1-$2 for a whlie now.

You're using data in entirely the wrong way here to ask if a crash is coming.

with how he see things may affect how he will be holding his coins. this is why people have different approach on this market, how they look at this market and how they are holding up.
as we have seen, the tx fees subside down a lot. the mempool is seemingly back to normal again.

[goaldigger]

At tx fees have been back to $1-$2 for a whlie now.

Yeah I could notice that. Highest fee for priority is now between 5-7$ depending on the setting and speed you want. Like you said I also don't believe that high fees was the reason for sell off because even doing that then requires high fee processing. It was normal for a drop to complete, price has started dropping from two months back before ordinal issues but is getting weigh better now and the congestion is clearing up.

Didn’t see the fees as the reason for the drop, most probably its more about the price trend where the resistance are stronger over the buyers, and the corrections are anticipated by many. The sell off are because of the market sentiment and the network becomes congested because of that issue, fees are just the concern if you’re selling your holdings and take the profit out in the market, other network are still safe from this.