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Re:Bitcoin Surpasses $4,000, Reaches Another Milestone by tpallarino on Sunday August 13, 2017 @01:38AM (#15001685)
You could currently pay a fee of about 5 cents and be confirmed likely within 3 blocks.

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Re:Bitcoin Surpasses $4,000, Reaches Another Milestone by pieguy on Sunday August 13, 2017 @02:27AM (#15001776)
Not sure how you came up with 5 cents but I get $1.36: 4000 dollars/btc * 10^-8 btc/satoshi * 150 satoshi/byte * 226 bytes/transaction = $1.356 per transaction
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Re:Bitcoin Surpasses $4,000, Reaches Another Milestone by tpallarino on Sunday August 13, 2017 @02:28AM (#15001781)
If you wanted to get confirmed in the very next block you could probably use 25 satoshi/byte at this point in time. Personally, if I were sending a non critical/time-sensitive transaction right now I would use about 5 satoshi/byte.
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Re:Bitcoin Surpasses $4,000, Reaches Another Milestone by nickporter on Sunday August 13, 2017 @02:25AM (#15001772)
This. I just bought 0.007 btc and sent it to a friend, and it cost less than 10 cents in fees overall.
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