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Bitcoin Fee Pressure

Live state of Bitcoin's transaction-fee market. From our own<br>bitcoind full node in NYC. Updated every 30 seconds.

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Current state

Low

sat/vB

to confirm in the next block

Low<br>Moderate<br>High<br>Severe

Fee tiers

Next block<br>~10 min<br>1 sat/vB

Half hour<br>~30 min<br>1 sat/vB

Hour<br>~60 min<br>1 sat/vB

Economy<br>Several hours<br>1 sat/vB

Mempool floor<br>Eventually<br>1 sat/vB

Mempool backlog

0.26<br>blocks

~3 min to clear ·<br>Current tip: 950,297

tip

950,298

Queued txs

928

Avg fee

1.9 sat/vB

How we classify state.<br>Each band's upper bound is<br>max(historical_percentile, absolute_floor) of the<br>fastest_fee_sat_vb tier — percentile when the chain<br>has run hot recently, absolute floor when it hasn't. Floors:<br>Low ≤ 5 , Moderate ≤ 25 ,<br>High ≤ 100 , Severe otherwise.

Data from our own<br>bitcoind via the<br>Fee Pressure API.<br>Polls every 60 seconds.

Last 7 days, confirmed-block fee rates (hourly)

See full history &rarr;

State distribution:

Low<br>100%<br>(1,021)

Moderate<br>0%<br>(2)

High<br>0%<br>(0)

Severe<br>0%<br>(0)

1,023 blocks across 168 hourly buckets,<br>2026-05-13 to 2026-05-20.<br>Average p50 per bucket, sat/vB.