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On-chain data shows the Bitcoin transaction fee surpassed that of Ethereum during the last week as it hit a total of $61 million. Bitcoin Transaction Fees Has Been Higher Than Ethereum Recently According to data from the market intelligence platform IntoTheBlock, BTC transaction fees have recently surpassed that of ETH. The “transaction fees” here refer to the amount that every sender on the respective network has to attach with their transfer as a reward for the chain validator who processes the move. How much fees the average user would attach depends on the traffic conditions on the blockchain at the time. When there is a high amount of traffic on the network, some transfers can get stuck for a while, as the chain validators have only a limited capacity to handle them. Since the chain prioritizes the transfers with the highest fees, any user who wants to get their move through ASAP in such a time of congestion would have to go for fees notably larger than the average. Thus, when the blockchain is observing a large number of users making transactions at the same time, the fees can quickly shoot up as senders compete against each other to get in on the precious blockspace. The Bitcoin network has recently observed a sharp spike in its total transaction fees, as the below chart shows: The value of the metric has been quite high in recent days | Source: IntoTheBlock on X The “total fees” here are naturally the total sum of the transaction fees that individual users have been attaching to their transactions. Since this amount has blown up recently, it obviously means that the network has been quite congested recently. One reason behind this high traffic that immediately comes to mind is the rally that the cryptocurrency has enjoyed…

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Filed under: News - @ November 27, 2023 3:24 pm