<p>Check the medium fee of last n blocks? I believe the transaction fee is currently not very variable. The reference implementation "ensures" that all transactions that are smaller than 1000 bytes, have all outputs over 0,01 BTC and have a large enough priority will be processed, regardless of the transaction fee. Otherwise 0.1 mBTC is paid for every 1000 bytes of transaction (rounded up).</p>

<p>The priority of a transaction can be calculated by <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees" rel="nofollow">[1]</a></p>

<pre><code>priority = sum(input_value_in_base_units * input_age) / size_in_bytes
</code></pre>

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<p>Is there some way to programmatically extract the current consensus of the transaction fee from the bitcoin network, either by using the daemon or through some other means?</p>

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Check the medium fee of last n blocks? I believe the transaction fee is currently not very variable.
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Is there someway to determine the current network fee from the bitcoin network/daemon?
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# Is there someway to determine the current network fee from the bitcoin network/daemon?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-07-05)

Is there some way to programmatically extract the current consensus of the transaction fee from the bitcoin network, either by using the daemon or through some other means?

**Tags:** bitcoind, transaction-fees, network

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Check the medium fee of last n blocks? I believe the transaction fee is currently not very variable.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2014-11-19. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Check the medium fee of last n blocks? I believe the transaction fee is currently not very variable. The reference implementation "ensures" that all transactions that are smaller than 1000 bytes, have all outputs over 0,01 BTC and have a large enough priority will be processed, regardless of the transaction fee. Otherwise 0.1 mBTC is paid for every 1000 bytes of transaction (rounded up).

The priority of a transaction can be calculated by [[1]](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees)

```
priority = sum(input_value_in_base_units * input_age) / size_in_bytes

```

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: With respect to http://meta.bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/633/please-post-answers-as-answers-not-as-comments?cb=1, I posted my comment as an answer.  

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