Bitcoin Network Fee at 1 sat/vB: When Consolidating Your UTXOs Pays Off Now

A transfer on the Bitcoin network currently costs around ten cents. Consolidating twenty separate amounts inside a wallet costs less than one euro. Both figures can be calculated directly from the current fee rate and the size of a transaction, and that is precisely why now is the moment to look into your wallet. This analysis was carried out by cryptoticker.io on September 9, 2026.

The starting position: the median fee rate on the Bitcoin network has sat almost continuously at one satoshi per virtual byte for three months, the technical minimum most nodes will relay at all. We evaluated 1,105 data points for this from the period between June 9 and September 9, 2026. At no single point did the rate exceed seven satoshis per virtual byte.

What the network fee in sat/vB actually is

The network fee of a Bitcoin transaction does not depend on the amount you send but on the space your transaction takes up in a block. That space is measured in virtual bytes, abbreviated vB. A block holds around one million virtual bytes. Whoever bids more per virtual byte gets in sooner.

The fee rate is the price you bid per virtual byte, stated in satoshis per virtual byte, sat/vB for short. A satoshi is one hundred-millionth of a bitcoin. At a price of $78,495 or 67,496 euros per bitcoin, measured on September 9, 2026 at 18:51 UTC through the public price interface of CoinGecko, a thousand satoshis are worth around 67 cents.