Yesterday, a very anomalous thing happened: a user paid as much as 19 BTC as fees for a Bitcoin transaction.
A fee of 19 #BTC (509,563 USD) has just been paid for a single transaction!https://t.co/sI0FSMnsiW
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) September 10, 2023
The countervalue in fiat currency is about $510,000, so an absolutely disproportionate amount.
However, it is necessary to put this anomaly in context in order to interpret it correctly.
High fees on a Bitcoin transaction
There have been more than half a million unconfirmed transactions waiting in the Bitcoin mempool for a few days now.
The fact is that individual blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain rarely contain more than 4,000 transactions, with many not reaching 3,000.
On average, since a block is validated every 10 minutes or so, and since only transactions entered in a validated block are confirmed, the queue will take many hours, if not days, to clear. In fact, more continue to be added.
Yesterday a total of abo
We współpracy z: https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2023/09/11/bitcoin-insane-fees-spent-transaction/
