<p>You can see current Bitcoin transaction fees at <a href="https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/</a>.  Right now it is suggesting a fee of about BTC 0.001 which is about USD 13, so that's about right.  Note that transaction fees don't depend on the amount transacted; you'd pay the same fee of about USD 13 whether you were sending the equivalent of USD 100 or USD 100,000.</p>

<p>A few weeks ago, the fees were 2-3 times higher than they are now.  This is something you have to take into account when thinking about trading and moving Bitcoin.</p>

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2018-01-15T23:48:34.730Z
2018-01-15T23:48:34.730Z
Nate Eldredge
<p>You can pay a lower fee but this will risk it being stuck in the mempool forever—-not an advisable option.</p>

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2018-01-15T23:02:09.427Z
2018-01-15T23:02:09.427Z
Dr.Plastics
<p>I would try to convert your Bitcoin to ether and transfer that to binance especially if the plan is to buy alt coins. If you want to keep it as btc than yes you have to pay the fee which is actually lower than it has been over the last month or two.</p>

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2018-01-15T22:54:27.713Z
2018-01-15T22:54:27.713Z
Phil Greene
<p>So basically I bought the equivalent of 100EUR in BTC with CoinBase (they took 3 EUR for this operation)</p>

<p>Now I would like to buy other currencies with binance, but if I try to send my BTC to my Binance BTC address it says the network fee are 13 USD.</p>

<p>Are them really so high? Is there something else that i could do?</p>

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2018-01-15T23:51:42.380Z
Note that it's important to keep straight the distinction between a *commission* (paid to an exchange for a trade between BTC and EUR/USD/...), and *transaction/network fees* (paid to miners for a transaction which moves BTC from one address to another).
Nate Eldredge
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2018-01-16T18:00:14.887Z
I have solved it by transfering with GDAX, no fee
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Trying to transfer BTC from Coinbase to Binance, commission 13 USD?
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# Trying to transfer BTC from Coinbase to Binance, commission 13 USD?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-01-15)

So basically I bought the equivalent of 100EUR in BTC with CoinBase (they took 3 EUR for this operation)

Now I would like to buy other currencies with binance, but if I try to send my BTC to my Binance BTC address it says the network fee are 13 USD.

Are them really so high? Is there something else that i could do?

**Tags:** transaction-fees, network, coinbase.com

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Note that it's important to keep straight the distinction between a *commission* (paid to an exchange for a trade between BTC and EUR/USD/...), and *transaction/network fees* (paid to miners for a transaction which moves BTC from one address to another).  
> **username_0**: I have solved it by transfering with GDAX, no fee  

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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-01-15. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

You can see current Bitcoin transaction fees at <https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/>. Right now it is suggesting a fee of about BTC 0.001 which is about USD 13, so that's about right. Note that transaction fees don't depend on the amount transacted; you'd pay the same fee of about USD 13 whether you were sending the equivalent of USD 100 or USD 100,000.

A few weeks ago, the fees were 2-3 times higher than they are now. This is something you have to take into account when thinking about trading and moving Bitcoin.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2018-01-15. Score: 1

You can pay a lower fee but this will risk it being stuck in the mempool forever—-not an advisable option.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2018-01-15. Score: 0

I would try to convert your Bitcoin to ether and transfer that to binance especially if the plan is to buy alt coins. If you want to keep it as btc than yes you have to pay the fee which is actually lower than it has been over the last month or two.


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