In my very first Publish0x post, I wrote about how people can find out when their Bitcoin will confirm. This post is an unofficial Part Two to it as I will be writing about another website that can help you determine what Bitcoin miner fee you should use based on how quickly you want the transaction to confirm. If by the end of this post you still have some questions, be sure to check out my first post as it may have the answers there.
Another website where you can check what Bitcoin miner fee you should use is https://mempool.space/. This website gives you information on Bitcoin's memory pool (mempool for short). When you go to the website, you'll be presented with a homepage that looks like this:
The 5 blocks in green or orange are the transactions that have been broadcasted to the network but have yet to be confirmed. The blue or purple blocks with numbers on top (block number) are the transactions that have already been confirmed. The colours of the unconfirmed blocks, which is used to represent the miner fee, constantly change; the greener the block is, the lower the miner fees.
When looking at the first greenish block next to the last confirmed block, it looks like 18 sat/vB is the average miner fee. For the second green block, the average is 5 sat/vB. For the third green block, the average is 4 sat/vB and etc.
By clicking on an unconfirmed block, it displays the range of what people have paid in miner fees for that particular block. When clicking on the first block green block next to the confirmed block, you'll see something that looks this:
It looks like people have paid as low as 10 sat/vB and as high as 303 sat/vB to have their Bitcoin confirmed in the next block.
When clicking on the second next block, it looks like this: 
We can see that the range of fees is between 5 and 10 sat/vB. However, the median is 5 sat/vB.
This means that based on Bitcoin's current mempool, if you were to pay a 1 sat/vB miner fee, your transaction should get confirmed within an hour as the last upcoming block isn't even full yet and the median fee is 1 sat/vB. This is all subject to change though as there could be a sudden surge in transactions being broadcasted to the network with significantly higher miner fees. This would then push any transactions with lower fees back. Transactions get confirmed based a miner fee priority.
This is just another website that can be used to see what miner fee you should use when sending some Bitcoin; it's not better or worse. Some may like this site better than the other one that I talked about in my first post and vice versa. The idea here is that I'm just giving options for you to explore. Check out my first post here to see the other website.
Here's a video explanation for those of you who like videos better:
Hopefully after reading this blog post or my first one, you're now more aware of what miner fee you should use. It all depends on how quickly you need the Bitcoin; the faster you need it, the more you'll need to pay and vice versa. Speed costs money.
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