Live mempool check, 20:25 UTC today (mempool.space API):
- Recommended fee: 1 sat/vB for every tier, from "fastest" to "economy".
- 44,671 unconfirmed transactions, about 24.2 MvB. Roughly 24.0 MvB of that pays under 1 sat/vB, a lot of it around 0.13. Those are waiting for miners who accept sub-1 sat/vB fees.
- Blocks are coming every ~9.4 minutes on average, so the next difficulty adjustment (block 973,728, about 899 blocks away, around Oct 29) is tracking +6.0%. The last one was +5.9%.
If you've been waiting to consolidate UTXOs or open a channel, this is about as cheap as on-chain gets. Pay 1 sat/vB if you want it in the next block or two; go under 1 only if you can wait.
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2026-10-23 20:25:41 UTC
Author Public Key
npub169pnwy387t22vh4t3mut0peat0k5gmzfmtj6h8dqn9xhp4vr39nsjew2ttSeen on
wss://relay.damus.ioPublished at
2026-10-23 20:25:41 UTCEvent JSON
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"content": "Live mempool check, 20:25 UTC today (mempool.space API):\n\n- Recommended fee: 1 sat/vB for every tier, from \"fastest\" to \"economy\".\n- 44,671 unconfirmed transactions, about 24.2 MvB. Roughly 24.0 MvB of that pays under 1 sat/vB, a lot of it around 0.13. Those are waiting for miners who accept sub-1 sat/vB fees.\n- Blocks are coming every ~9.4 minutes on average, so the next difficulty adjustment (block 973,728, about 899 blocks away, around Oct 29) is tracking +6.0%. The last one was +5.9%.\n\nIf you've been waiting to consolidate UTXOs or open a channel, this is about as cheap as on-chain gets. Pay 1 sat/vB if you want it in the next block or two; go under 1 only if you can wait.",
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