List of Flash News about Bitcoin fees
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2025-09-30 21:44 |
Bitcoin (BTC) Fees Are the Network’s Spam Filter: BitMEX Research Highlights 17 Years of Effectiveness — Key Trading Implications
According to @BitMEXResearch, Bitcoin transaction fees function as the network’s spam filter and have worked effectively for almost 17 years, underscoring the fee market’s role in curbing low-value floods of transactions. Source: BitMEX Research on X, Sep 30, 2025. This statement aligns with Bitcoin’s design where miners prioritize higher-fee transactions, making spam economically costly and preserving block space for market-rate demand. Source: Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System; Bitcoin Core documentation on transaction selection and mempool policy. For traders moving BTC on-chain, timely settlement typically requires paying the prevailing sat/vB market rate, especially during mempool congestion windows when low-fee transactions face delays or eviction. Source: Bitcoin Core fee estimation and mempool policy documentation. Elevated on-chain fees directly increase miners’ fee revenue share per block, reinforcing prioritization by fee and shaping block space pricing dynamics that traders must account for when planning transfers or arbitrage flows. Source: Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008; Bitcoin Core mining and fee policy documentation. |
2025-09-12 07:30 |
Bitcoin (BTC) On-Chain Fees Stay Low Despite Record High Prices, Says @Andre_Dragosch
According to @Andre_Dragosch, Bitcoin network fees remain consistently low even as BTC trades near record highs, countering claims that spam filtering is needed to protect users from punitive transaction costs, as stated on X on Sep 12, 2025. According to @Andre_Dragosch, this challenges the narrative that higher prices automatically lead to unaffordable fees for users in developing countries, as stated on X on Sep 12, 2025. |
2025-09-05 05:45 |
Bitcoin BTC Fee Market Alert: Adam Back Says 1.5% From Spam and Persistent High Fees Spur Miner ASIC Investment
According to @adam3us, spam-related activity currently accounts for about 1.5% of the Bitcoin fee market, with a crude estimate that roughly 1% of excess fees comes from spam rather than standard transactions and that spam displaces other transaction fees, source: Adam Back on X, Sep 5, 2025. According to @adam3us, if fees remain persistently higher, miners respond by buying more ASICs, source: Adam Back on X, Sep 5, 2025. For traders, this dynamic can expand network hash rate and lead to higher future difficulty, directly affecting on-chain transaction costs and settlement timing, so monitor fee rates and the next difficulty adjustment window, source: Bitcoin.org Developer Guide; source: Adam Back on X, Sep 5, 2025. |
2025-09-02 04:41 |
Adam Back: How Bitcoin's BTC Block Size Limit and Dynamic Fee Market Shape Fees During 'JPEG Spam' Surges in 2025
According to Adam Back, Bitcoin’s censorship resistance prevents censoring, seizure, or freezing of transactions and also means the network cannot block non-financial data such as JPEG inscriptions from consuming block space. Source: Adam Back on X, Sep 2, 2025. He states that Bitcoin’s fixed block size and a dynamic fee market act as a sanity limit to preserve decentralization, keeping BTC unseizable and unfreezable. Source: Adam Back on X, Sep 2, 2025. For traders, this design implies that when inscription activity rises, fee rates adjust upward through the fee market and confirmations can lengthen, raising on-chain transfer costs and timing risk for moving BTC collateral. Source: Adam Back on X, Sep 2, 2025. |
2025-09-01 12:48 |
Bitcoin (BTC) Solo Miner Wins Entire Block Worth $340,000 — Trading Focus on Fees, Hashprice, and On-Chain Confirmation
According to @rovercrc, a solo miner mined an entire Bitcoin (BTC) block valued at about $340,000, indicating the combined block subsidy and transaction fees reached that amount at the time of mining, source: @rovercrc on X. Solo-miner block wins are rare but possible under Bitcoin’s probabilistic proof-of-work where block discovery follows a Poisson process, source: Bitcoin whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto 2008. For verification and trading context, check real-time fee rates and mempool congestion to see whether elevated fees contributed to the payout, source: mempool.space, and review miner revenue per TH/s on the Luxor Hashprice Index to gauge mining revenue conditions, source: Luxor Technology. Because the cited post does not include a block height or address, traders should seek corroboration on public block explorers before acting, source: @rovercrc on X and BTC.com block explorer. |
2024-10-04 16:03 |
Bitcoin Fees Drop Significantly as Dominance Increases
According to IntoTheBlock, Bitcoin transaction fees have experienced a significant decline, dropping by 86% this quarter. Despite this decrease in fees, market confidence in Bitcoin remains strong, as evidenced by Bitcoin's increasing dominance in the cryptocurrency market. |