What fee should I use?

For a non-urgent consolidation, the lowest rate that has recently been confirming. See the live economy fee on the Network page.

UTXO consolidation: when fees are low, tidy your wallet

Why many small coins make future payments expensive, and how to merge them when the mempool is quiet.

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Why it matters

Each coin (UTXO) you spend adds bytes to a transaction. A wallet full of tiny coins is cheap to hold but expensive to spend when fees are high.

How to do it

When the mempool is nearly empty and the lowest fees are clearing, send many small coins to a new address of your own in one transaction at a low fee. Check the live fee rates first.

The trade-off

Merging coins links them together on the blockchain, which reduces privacy. Don't merge coins from sources you want to keep separate.

Fees right now

Fast · sat/vB

~30 min · sat/vB

~1 hour · sat/vB

Economy · sat/vB

Mempool: 51,200 tx · mempool.space · 22 Oct 2026, 22:01 London · Network live →

FAQ

What fee should I use?: For a non-urgent consolidation, the lowest rate that has recently been confirming. See the live economy fee on the Network page.

On the site

Original bitcointalk.org threads

Mempool empty! Use this opportunity to consolidate your small inputs (Oct 2026) · 1,545 replies / 95,699 views (as of 13 Oct 2026)

Our own explanation; forum threads are linked, not copied. Not investment advice.