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Saturday, May 17, 2025

BTC's Average Transaction Fee Drops below $1 for the First Time within 2 Years - Blockchain News

The average transaction fee for Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $1 due to falling market prices and lower mining difficulty.
The Bitcoin ecosystem has also suffered from quite high transaction fees in the past, jumping further over $60 in 2021, such a high fee.
Typically, when the usage of the Bitcoin network is high, transaction fees go up. Transactions compete for limited space in Bitcoin blocks. This leads to competition for transaction fees as users race to get their transactions included in the next block.
However, the difficulty of mining new BTC blocks is steadily decreasing as miners recover from a chronic shortage of chips and gain access to cheaper hardware.
This has also become a major contributor to the reduction of transaction fees.
At the same time, the slump in cryptocurrency has also led to a decrease in the number of mining people.
The member pool is much looser than before, and all valid transactions have to wait for the confirmation of the Bitcoin network. If the pool of...



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