Bitcoin fees today
Current fee rates for the next block, half hour and hour, and what fees mean for miners.
What a payment costs today
A typical payment is about 140 virtual bytes. At the next-block rate of 1 sat/vB that is 140 sats, about $0.11 at $81,960 per bitcoin.
Fees and mining revenue
Fees are the part of mining revenue that does not halve. Right now they are 0.6% of what miners earn per block; during busy periods they have been a far larger share. They are included in today's hashprice.
Questions
- What are Bitcoin fees right now?
- As of Oct 12, 2026: about 1 sat/vB for the next block, 1 sat/vB within an hour.
- What is sat/vB?
- Satoshis per virtual byte. A typical one-input, two-output SegWit payment is about 140 vB, so 10 sat/vB is about 1,400 sats.
- How much do fees pay miners?
- Over the last 144 blocks fees were 0.6% of the total block reward; the rest was the 3.125 BTC subsidy.
- Why do fees spike?
- Blocks have a fixed size. When more transactions want in than fit, users outbid each other; the highest fee rates are mined first.
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Updated Oct 12, 2026 (US Eastern). Data: mempool.space public API. Figures are network-wide estimates from recent blocks.
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