<p>No, it has nothing to do with receiving fees. It is not a wallet and has nothing to do with your wallet balance.</p>
<p>When you make a transaction you have to pay a transaction fee. The question is, what fee should you pay? To deal with that, Bitcoin Core has a feerate estimator which looks at transactions in the mempool and how long it takes for those transactions to confirm. It then produces an estimate for various confirmation time targets. These estimates are stored in the <code>fee_estimates.dat</code> file.</p>

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<p>Among its name, this file (fee_estimates.dat) should contain fees for the miner.</p>
<p>Am I right ?
Do you know when it will be integrated in the wallet balance ?</p>

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Fees file for miners?
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# Fees file for miners?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-03-02)

Among its name, this file (fee\_estimates.dat) should contain fees for the miner.

Am I right ?
Do you know when it will be integrated in the wallet balance ?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2024-03-02. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

No, it has nothing to do with receiving fees. It is not a wallet and has nothing to do with your wallet balance.

When you make a transaction you have to pay a transaction fee. The question is, what fee should you pay? To deal with that, Bitcoin Core has a feerate estimator which looks at transactions in the mempool and how long it takes for those transactions to confirm. It then produces an estimate for various confirmation time targets. These estimates are stored in the `fee_estimates.dat` file.


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