{"id":49,"date":"2026-10-01T12:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/why-fees-rose-this-week-a-busy-mempool-explained\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:46:01","slug":"why-fees-rose-this-week-a-busy-mempool-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/why-fees-rose-this-week-a-busy-mempool-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Why fees rose this week: a busy mempool, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fees for an ordinary payment were several times higher on Tuesday than on Sunday (sample report).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason is space: each block holds a limited number of payments, and when many people send at once, they bid for a place with higher fees. Payments with lower fees wait in the mempool until it quietens down.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your payment is not urgent, a lower fee rate usually gets through within a day. Your wallet&#8217;s fee setting shows the choice in sats per vbyte; the amount you send does not change the fee.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More payments waiting than space in the next blocks. What it means if you need to send (sample).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-bycoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}