The screenshot below was taken from https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ at 8.05am UTC on August 1, 2017 — the day everybody stopped sending Bitcoin due to the coming of Bitcoin Cash UAHF. At the time of writing, the fork is about 3 hours away, but because everybody is playing it safe and many bitcoin exchanges have stopped trading and withdrawals, you can now witness untypically low transaction fee.
![The Day Bitcoin Stood Still](https://minerz.info/wp-content/uploads/the-day-bitcoin-stood-still-min-1024x981.jpg)
The lowest cost of immediate transactions is about 4 times smaller than the recent average, and it can go as low as 4 times still if you are OK with a 90% chance of confirmation within 1~3 blocks.
Enjoy the silence before the storm.
![](https://minerz.info/wp-content/uploads/Star-Wars-Blade-Squadron-600x600.jpg)
I am a small business owner from Bulgaria. I have been tinkering with personal computers ever since I was a kid. I feel enchanted by Bitcoin technology; last time I felt this excited was some 23 years ago when I first started surfing the internet using a 28.8k modem.