What does sat/vB mean?
Bitcoin fees are commonly measured in satoshis per virtual byte, or sat/vB. Bigger transactions need more block space, so the fee rate matters more than the total fee alone.
sat/vB and confirmation pressure
Bitcoin fees.
Understand Bitcoin fee rates, sat/vB, mempool demand, and why transaction fees change when block space gets crowded.
Why higher fees confirm faster
Miners usually prefer transactions that pay more per unit of block space. When demand is high, higher sat/vB transactions usually move faster.
How BTCNodes helps
BTCNodes shows fee pressure and candidate block data so users can see whether the network looks quiet, busy, or painfully expensive. Truly, civilization peaked at bidding for bytes.
fee basics
Bitcoin fees are really block-space bids
A Bitcoin transaction fee is not based only on the amount of bitcoin being sent. It depends mostly on how much block space the transaction uses and how much demand exists for that space.
That is why sat/vB matters. A small transaction paying a modest total fee can confirm faster than a large transaction paying more total sats but a weaker fee rate.
BTCNodes connects fee rates to mempool pressure and candidate block data, so users can see whether the network is quiet, busy, or expensive before reading raw transaction details.