{"id":31565,"date":"2020-11-11T09:45:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T07:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31565"},"modified":"2025-08-28T04:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:20:39","slug":"bitcoin-network-fees-fall-below-8-as-mempool-clears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-network-fees-fall-below-8-as-mempool-clears\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin network fees fall below $8 as mempool clears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-transaction-fees-climb-to-january-2018-levels\">record surge<\/a>, Bitcoin network transaction fees fell to below $8. A congested mempool had almost cleared just a few days earlier.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A record drop in transaction fees over the past weeks was observed on Sunday, 8 November, when the metric stood at $5.98. In the following two days, the cost of transactions rose slightly\u2014to $7.82 on Tuesday, 10 November.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_116064\" style=\"width: 1810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116064\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116064\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-transaction-fees-2020-11-11.png\" alt=\"\u041a\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u0441\u0435\u0442\u0438 \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u0443\u043f\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u043d\u0438\u0436\u0435 $8 \u043d\u0430 \u0444\u043e\u043d\u0435 \u043e\u0447\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0432\u0448\u0435\u0433\u043e\u0441\u044f \u043c\u0435\u043c\u043f\u0443\u043b\u0430\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-transaction-fees-2020-11-11.png 1800w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-transaction-fees-2020-11-11-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-transaction-fees-2020-11-11-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-transaction-fees-2020-11-11-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_bitcoin-mean-transaction-fees-2020-11-11-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-116064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/metrics?a=BTC&#038;category=Fees&#038;m=fees.VolumeMean&#038;s=1514757600&#038;u=1604181599&#038;zoom=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Glassnode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The number of unconfirmed transactions fell \u2014 at the time of writing there were just under 6,000.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_116065\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116065\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116065\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mempool-count-2020-11-11.png\" alt=\"\u041a\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u0441\u0435\u0442\u0438 \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u0443\u043f\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u043d\u0438\u0436\u0435 $8 \u043d\u0430 \u0444\u043e\u043d\u0435 \u043e\u0447\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0432\u0448\u0435\u0433\u043e\u0441\u044f \u043c\u0435\u043c\u043f\u0443\u043b\u0430\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mempool-count-2020-11-11.png 720w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mempool-count-2020-11-11-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-116065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/charts\/mempool-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Blockchain.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The mempool size declined to 2.75 MB.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_116066\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116066\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116066\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mempool-size-2020-11-11.png\" alt=\"\u041a\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u0441\u0435\u0442\u0438 \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u0443\u043f\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u043d\u0438\u0436\u0435 $8 \u043d\u0430 \u0444\u043e\u043d\u0435 \u043e\u0447\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0432\u0448\u0435\u0433\u043e\u0441\u044f \u043c\u0435\u043c\u043f\u0443\u043b\u0430\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mempool-size-2020-11-11.png 720w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mempool-size-2020-11-11-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-116066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/charts\/mempool-size\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Blockchain.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, 9 November, the Bitcoin network&#8217;s hash rate <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-hash-rate-jumps-46-in-24-hours\">rose<\/a> by 46% \u2013 from 112.6 EH\/s to 164.5 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, this figure, according to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinwarz.com\/mining\/bitcoin\/hashrate-chart#:~:text=The%20current%20Bitcoin%20hashrate%20(BTC,with%20a%20difficulty%20of%2016%2C787%2C779%2C609%2C932.66.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Coinwarz<\/a>, had fallen to 120.6 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" 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Just a few days ago, the congested mempool was almost completely cleared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1178,1137,1127],"class_list":["post-31565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchain-fees","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-mempool"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31567,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565\/revisions\/31567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}