With the price of Bitcoins on the rise, it's timely to remind people that they can view the current trend of prices to confirm transactions here:
https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/please stop recommending this website, the suggestions have always been terrible because they inflate the fees for some reason and currently the suggested fee is pure bullshit.
https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/ is currently suggesting
160 satoshis/byte for "fastest and cheapest transaction fee"
but analyzing the mempool (which is what i recommend) suggests that paying
20 satoshi/byte will give you the "fastest and cheapest transaction fee" and if you wanted a better guarantee you can pay 30 which is A LOT smaller than the fee suggested by bitcoinfees.earn.com website.
this is the best website you can use:
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24hand here is how it works. you look at the chart called Mempool size in MB because the size matters not the count. then move your mouse over the last part on the right which is the current state and look at the numbers. bitcoin block size these days are around 1.2 MB so you want to pay a fee around that size, basically anything above 1 MB. currently it shows that about 1.043 MB transactions are paying fees equal to and bigger than 30 so paying anything above 30 is an overkill.