Want to Save Up on Fees While Sending BTC? Try this guide.

in #bitcoin8 years ago

BTC is not like STEEM - there are fees and confirmations needed to send coins.

The BTC scallability issue is that blocks get full and there is more transactions than network can roll fast, then people sometimes wait 2 days for their coins to come.

So then we have fees. The bigger fee you put, the higher priority transaction gets. If you put too small fee or none, your coins will get stuck in mempool and never reach their destiny.

So now we know - if you want to reach target in time, you need to use fees. The higher - the faster it goes.

But how to not overpay or try to make them as little as possible ?

I will explain in this guide.

Get Electrum Wallet


https://electrum.org/#home
It needs a little hard drive [doesnt download whole blockchain] and has loads of great functions.

Allow RBF


Tools->Preferences->Fees
Enable Replace by Fee and disavble the other setup (it will make u always pay more than 0.001 BTC per transaction).

Send BTC with Low Fee


Now choose whreee to send, tick RBF and use slider for lowest fee possible. Send.

Fix Fee

Now if transaction is stuck for long time with others like now we have 30k waiting:

All you do is resend it with bigger fee and allow it to get into queque again.

This way when you are not in rush yet dont wanna wait 3 days for money to come back, use this trick to lower the fees.

Now with a few transactions you can save few USDs and get free beer or coffee.

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BTC is not like STEEM - there are fees and confirmations needed to send coins.

great introduction to whole article :D :)

yes i made it on purpose ;)

:)

Thanks a bunch for the tips, and knowledge! Namaste :)

Thanx for the article...good read

You can also send all your coins to yourself with low fee so they merge, making the following transactions shorter so they cost less.

Especially useful for people getting cash from faucets

Be careful! In some blockexplorers may appear the second transaction as "double-spend". Don't worry, it's ok!

Its always good to save on fees , thank you for post this :)

How about you buy steem with btc and send steem instead? Will only work if the recipient is on steemit though.

You will have to send the btc to an exchange anyway, paying both the btc fee plus the exchange fee

Oops. Yeah you're right. Sorry.

thank you for your tips.

"Now with a few transactions you can save few USDs and get free beer or coffee." lol - when you can wait so long for a beer or coffee then it is definately something wrong in your life :-)

"disable the other setup (it will make u always pay more than 0.001 BTC per transaction)"
thats 1 USD, you can buy lager for 1 USD in some countries. so literally 1 transaction with this gives a beer ;)

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