<p>Fees are collected to a &quot;fee address&quot;. Blockstream uses this to fund the BTC fees incurred by &quot;burning&quot; the L-BTC needed to pay fees.</p>
<p>Fees are intended to be anti-spam rather than a revenue source. Monetization of Liquid is based on providing products and services on top of Liquid.</p>

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Allen Piscitello
<p>I was reading about <a href="https://help.blockstream.com/hc/en-us/articles/900001408623-How-does-Liquid-Bitcoin-L-BTC-work-" rel="nofollow noreferrer">how Liquid works</a>. Do Liquid transaction fees work the same way BTC fees do (per transaction)? Is there only Blockstream as a miner or are there other enterprises who collect the fees too?</p>

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Not an answer as i'm not 100% sure but from some bribes of conversations i got i think Blockstream collects the fees which helps them pay actual Bitcoin fees then
Antoine Poinsot
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https://docs.blockstream.com/liquid/technical_overview.html#confidential-transactions mentions congestion; so how could there be congestion if it's a centralized chain? (Well, thanks anyway)
MCCCS
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How is Liquid monetized?
MCCCS
# How is Liquid monetized?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-03-04)

I was reading about [how Liquid works](https://help.blockstream.com/hc/en-us/articles/900001408623-How-does-Liquid-Bitcoin-L-BTC-work-). Do Liquid transaction fees work the same way BTC fees do (per transaction)? Is there only Blockstream as a miner or are there other enterprises who collect the fees too?

**Tags:** transaction-fees, liquid

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Not an answer as i'm not 100% sure but from some bribes of conversations i got i think Blockstream collects the fees which helps them pay actual Bitcoin fees then  
> **username_0**: https://docs.blockstream.com/liquid/technical_overview.html#confidential-transactions mentions congestion; so how could there be congestion if it's a centralized chain? (Well, thanks anyway)  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2021-03-04. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

Fees are collected to a "fee address". Blockstream uses this to fund the BTC fees incurred by "burning" the L-BTC needed to pay fees.

Fees are intended to be anti-spam rather than a revenue source. Monetization of Liquid is based on providing products and services on top of Liquid.


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