The term UTXO Management scared me. Then I watched this video, and was like... "oh no shit, that's it, cool"! thanks man.
@rationalevidence90955 ай бұрын
FYI, for fees, each UTXO you add to the transaction adds on 0.5x the fee. So if sending btc from 1 UTXO is 1000 sats, sending from 2 UTXOs is 1500 sats, sending from 3 UTXOS is 2000 sats, etc. (for single sig wallets).
@davidbaker46144 ай бұрын
About time someone spoke seriously about this issue. Fees can add up massively on DCA HODLling. Bitcoin saving is very different from keeping money in a wallet. I wish a wallet would add the function of notifying us when fees allow reasonable consolidation
@pilotboba6 ай бұрын
One thing you didn't mention is you can SPLIT UTXOs using the same technique. Choose a large UTXO, and send 1/2 of it to yourself.
@Paintbug6 ай бұрын
What a great tutorial, Thanks! I'm saving this video for when I need it.
@williamboydsmith47734 ай бұрын
I had a 71 Input and 141 output incoming transaction to my sparrow wallet and it was taking forever so I boosted the fee using the increase fee and it did the consolidation and then was confirmed quickly. it went to 1 input, 1 output plus fee. AMAZING!
@alexcamarda14764 ай бұрын
This is an amazing video. I am a total noob that is just dipping my toes to try and understand Bitcoin. Your explanations are perfect for the person that is starting fresh. This encourages new people to join in and get on the bus to the future. Thank you
@outdoorsman31474 ай бұрын
Very helpful. Was unsure what UTXO was now I have a better grasp, very much appreciated.
@diamonddad85356 ай бұрын
Excellent video. I did not know any of this. Thank you Ben.
@nonshatter72 ай бұрын
Excellent video, your clarity of explanations is second to none.
@kathybirkett79865 ай бұрын
Very helpful! I think it raises more questions for this noob, but I'm sure I can figure those out over time too. Continuing to watch! 🙂
@hullumstarmedia3 ай бұрын
As many of us try to connect our wallets and learn on the fly rapid pace... You are the m************ cherry strawberries and pineapple on top of crypto shake, 😂... I thank you my brother and keep up the amazingness!
@AlexNYC9616 ай бұрын
Very informative as always. Thank you!
@crossfitincline79876 ай бұрын
I would love to see a video with Sparrow and Trezor UTXO consolidation! Thanks for your awesome vids.
@paulinemaurice91896 ай бұрын
Great info, I love learning from you, I will save this for later. You rock! 🇨🇦
@mikehardcastle86186 ай бұрын
I couldn't agree with your Final Thoughts more. If you are comfortable and competent working with Layer 1, then you have the option to be the bank for others going forward.
@Paintbug6 ай бұрын
If I'm understanding this correctly., I'm really feeling sorry for those who have been DCAing lower value fiat into Bitcoin. This is the first time I'm learning about the UTXO issues. Also seems like an infomercial for non-techy people (most people I know) to just buy the ETFs rather than self-custody, which is very unfortunate. :-(
@dmpath6 ай бұрын
It doesn't work that way. If you DCA small amounts it doesn't create many utxos. When you transfer from the exchange to your wallet it comes in one utxo even if you purchased it with many small $ amounts.
@reggyelizer81266 ай бұрын
Non-techy people are considerably more likely to lose access to their funds through self custody than an ETF, don’t you think?
@onehappydawg6 ай бұрын
@@dmpathSo every time I transfer from an exchange to my wallet that creates a new UTXO?
@noeespinoza79776 ай бұрын
@@onehappydawgyes, so you can dca in the exchange but once you take self custody to your wallet it creates a UTXO
@onehappydawg6 ай бұрын
@@noeespinoza7977 ok, thanks. I first heard of this a few weeks ago on Bitcoin University’s channel and I think I’m finally getting my head around it. It’s probably not as complicated as I’m making it but it’s just new information I haven’t heard before.
@IDC455 ай бұрын
Good job on making this super simple to understand, you cut out a lot of the flufff I've seen elsewhere.
@TheJohnflood5 ай бұрын
Thank you Ben! that is a real help and very straight forward, and as far as spending, and the merchant seeing the change come back, i would imagine cold storage for savings, and a hot wallet would be a bit like a current account
@sirfactant72026 ай бұрын
Fantastic all info I had no idea about. Thanks
@MasterYodaaa5 ай бұрын
Incredibly useful. Thank you!!!
@timg79546 ай бұрын
Awesome. Thanks as always for the education.
@JB0266 ай бұрын
Excellent tutorial 👌
@davef59163 ай бұрын
This video captures such an interesting point in time and makes a good example. Since recording only 2 months ago, btc is up and a million sats is already like $700 USD, by the end of this year it could be $1,400 for all we know. I feel like the fees being denominated in sats on chain, but the dollar value of those sats is pulling apart privacy and efficiency at a crazy rate. I hope lightning continues to develop well. (edit) just wanted to add, since this video, fees have returned back down to a somewhat normal level.
@luludad16 ай бұрын
Well done...a convoluted branch of the rabbit hole well explained... keep the spot lamp on for us please
@mrpaddingtonn6 ай бұрын
amazing explanation. thank you
@joedonner94762 ай бұрын
This is very helpful. Great video.
@JeremyFisher7116 ай бұрын
you're awesome dude, thank you so much!!!
@nickwright35073 ай бұрын
Incredible video!
@xpcht6 ай бұрын
Marvelous info. thanks!
@8solideogloria6 ай бұрын
Good work!
@jeremytubbs6 ай бұрын
Very helpful. Thank you
@antoniocabrera50784 ай бұрын
Great info! Thanks!
@kbs73406 ай бұрын
Fantastic video. Thank you. Really appreciate you 💖👍💥💥🚀🚀🎉
@dynasty72985 күн бұрын
Oh man im afraid to do this. Never knew about this and i have quite a few chunks as you say that i def need to consolidate
@gadeaplanet6 ай бұрын
Great video thanks!
@Di3straАй бұрын
Your awesome 👏 brother thank you for the tutorial, now I need to work up and buy me a laptop and start On those sats
@giancarlotechАй бұрын
Awesome!!! greetings from Peru
@HangNguyen-hi4be6 ай бұрын
Heard Staxum is gearing up for a Binance listing. 🚀 Exciting times ahead!
@robertshaw3343 ай бұрын
Thank you
@perthjc6 ай бұрын
Great video Ben, is this the same as 'Rinsing' ?
@najmalcochin86894 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot ❤❤
@pyug176 ай бұрын
Great video & well explained. Thanks. How do the btc miners cope with their utxo burden? Theirs must be awful. Lots of really small transactions
@hobbierz4 ай бұрын
Super helpful
@denisgallagher1093 ай бұрын
Finally I understand utxos thank you. I dca into muun from swan but am going gto get cleaned out transferring to sparrow n hard wallet. Any ideas guys
@thomasneal71262 ай бұрын
Wow !!! was surprised he called the BTC fees a nightmare in the title. A lot is going to have to change on the transaction side of things if BTC is ever going to be adopted by the masses. It seems like a lot of people in the BTC community are afraid to admit this. I think we will get there one day, but it appears it will be years in the future.
@BTCSessions2 ай бұрын
I wouldn't say it's scary. It's just an economic reality that having society store your transaction data forever into the future is costly. For day to day small value interactions, this is likely not needed and can be easily abstracted to layers with various tradeoffs.
@techwrightauto6 ай бұрын
I moved from Ledger to Tangem awhile back when ledger had all their concerns with keys potentially being exported to the cloud... I unknowingly combined all my utxos at that time at a low fee. Now that i watched your video it makes sense though. Thanks for helping everyone understand. I wish i could use my Tangem with sparrow wallet though now that I'm learning more about it.
@rationalevidence90955 ай бұрын
why can't you? tangem doesn't hold your UTXOs, they're on the block chain. if you have your seed phrase you can load it into sparrow as well.
@techwrightauto5 ай бұрын
@@rationalevidence9095 Tangem doesn't have a seed phrase that you can obtain. Or at least the one I have is like that. I guess on the newer versions you can choose to know your seed phrase which would allow it to work with sparrow also.
@bert88075 ай бұрын
the original tangem stores the seed phrase on the card and you cannot know it.@@rationalevidence9095
@MrRem76005 ай бұрын
@@rationalevidence9095 be careful telling someone that - remember that loading a seed phrase into Sparrow means you're creating a hot wallet where the seed is stored online - a VERY bad decision if your intention is to hold keys on a hardware wallet.
@scotianovan13 ай бұрын
@@rationalevidence9095 The default when setting up the Tangem is not to have a seed phrase - it's all hidden in the Tangem card(s). But there is an option to set it up using a seed phrase, so if you've done that you can recreate the wallet in Sparrow. But when you make changes such as consolidating UTOXs in Sparrow, are those changes reflected in the Tangem app? Any issues or dangers in doing this?
@spraveenitpro6 ай бұрын
Solid stuff
@mrpaddingtonn6 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@BTCSessions6 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@exxonein77296 ай бұрын
I take it this video is in response to the tweet i sent you yesterday, thank you for making me this video but its too late😢
@user-jl1sz7su4p6 ай бұрын
can you also put this on X? youtube is forcing to turn off ad blocker which I won't tolerate.
@joeaghe7633 ай бұрын
Thanks for the knowledge shared Ben!.. My question is are we able to do this on unisat wallet ? and remember during minting, u have to go individual and not bult in some cases, so dont u end up spending the same fee as u will be spending smaller utxo from a consolidated uxto
@PoppyRaid4 ай бұрын
Hi, is Electrum wallet considered a safe way to transfer Bitcoin ? Thanks .. amazing content you provide .👏👏⭐️✌️
@Methuselah969V6 ай бұрын
You can also have separate UTXOs in the same address I learned
@lideadhead3 ай бұрын
Quick question. Do I have to move my BTC from my Ledger to Sparrow hot wallet to do UTXO Consolidation? Of can it stay on the Ledger wallet and just be consolidated using Sparrow?
@ToBTCoT6 ай бұрын
I wonder how many UTXO’s are and will become economically unspendable? This could further add to bitcoin’s deflationary nature. Millions of coins have been lost due to mistakes in security and/or sending, and now with the higher fee environment more and more sats will be economically unspendable with so many people being unaware of UTXO management.
@algislorian6 ай бұрын
Great video, Ben. But it still left me with unanswered questions. 1. What determines the size of a UTXO in bytes, is it just the type of address or are there more factors? 2. If I consolidate 5 UTXOs, for example, does it mean the size of the transaction (in bytes) will be 5x the size of 1 UTXO transaction and therefore 5 times more expensive, or are there other factors that change the transaction size in bytes? Love your videos , learning something new every week!🙏
@rationalevidence90955 ай бұрын
you can find these answers yourself by playing around on sparrow wallet. they let you set all the factors above and you can see the difference yourself.
@rationalevidence90955 ай бұрын
1) type of address AND amount of utxos sending the btc. 2) Each UTXO you add to the transaction (after the first one) adds on 0.5x the fee. So if sending btc from 1 UTXO is 1000 sats, sending from 2 UTXOs is 1500 sats, sending from 3 UTXOS is 2000 sats, etc. (for single sig wallets). i tested this up to 10 utxos.
@algislorian5 ай бұрын
@@rationalevidence9095 Thanks!
@nielsmoller27193 ай бұрын
great video:) hope u could clarify a few questions though:) why would u choose a sw wallet on desktop like Sparrow instead of using a known hw/cold wallet? isn't there security issues adding due to using a desktop wallet instead of a hw wallet? and isn't Sparrow also just a one mans shop? hope you have time to revert, probably just my ignorance playing w my brain here...
@stanleydipietro24066 ай бұрын
Ben, if I take all my funds off the exchange in one transaction consisting of many UTXOs. Will all the UTXOs arrive in my wallet seperately or all combined?
@natashaquinn884 ай бұрын
I have a ledger and want to transfer all my bitcoin to my new coldcard. Would it be the same to consolidate all the utxo’s when sending to coldcard rather then consolidating on ledger then sending to coldcard? Newb here 😊
@Dube88176 ай бұрын
Do you seen any privacy concerns in consolidating coinjoined/mixed UXTOs?
@joepiloto5 ай бұрын
When you send BTC on a transaction, what happens to that used UTXO from the original BTC that I received previously?
@HODLGENG6 ай бұрын
Exactly! this video is what us bitcoin-ers need! I use sparrow for non KYC… I have maybe 55-60, 50,000 sat UTXO’s… I’m not worried, as ‘.1’ Btc is my goal… if I haven’t already gotten there 😅 privacy is important and what a time we are in!?
@ds783496 ай бұрын
I'm worried, if a 50,000 sat UTXO is unusable now (really a 100,000 sat since you have a 50,000 sat UTXO after fees) I don't think its a stretch to think that a 0.1 BTC UTXO could be unusable in the future. We all want to see BTC go up in price, but we (including me) don't fully know what those unintended consequences could be.
@summerbreeze51153 ай бұрын
@@ds78349 Damn😢
@rationalevidence90955 ай бұрын
Benjamin - is there an app or alert notification (on any platform) that will ping me when the fees are low? It'd be nice to not have to check the mempool so often. Or is the best way to just gamble and set a low fee hoping eventually it will be included?
@scopo9116 ай бұрын
Another great video, thanks Ben! Is there an 'ideal' UTXO size? A size that's least likely to become unspendable in the future?
@Cronus66 ай бұрын
He suggests 1M+ sized utxos. Then a variety of those. So have some 1M, 2M, 3M, etc
@summerbreeze51153 ай бұрын
@@Cronus6 $IM dollars?😊 Damn im poor
@Cronus63 ай бұрын
@@summerbreeze5115 1M sats 😆
@christophermallory22224 ай бұрын
So is the point consolidating when fee's are low? Consolidating 10 UTXO's and sending the same 10 UTXO's out for payment seem to have the same fees.
@paulocoelho66373 ай бұрын
I would love to see a video with how to get ready to runes protocol after the Halving. I have a Bitcoin node but i also need to get the ord client to be able to mint the first runes after the Halving. And i'm a liitle lost with all of this information. If you could help, that would be great! Thanks!!
@weightelk6 ай бұрын
Let's say buy $1 an hour on strike I wait until my btc on strike is worth $1000 I send that $1000 via lighting to my Muun wallet Then I send that $1000 from Muun wallet to a Trezor on chain How does the UTXO consolidation work when it comes to lightning and on chain transactions?
@narwhaltacos21976 ай бұрын
If you let your dca build up on Strike and only send it out at $1000, you’ll only be sending out 1 utxo. So you’d have no worries. The problem would be if you buy $1 an hour and send each one out separately, then you’d have 1000 very small utxo’s and it would be a nightmare to consolidate those later. Also, the fee concerns really only apply to on-chain transactions (right now) - Lightning Network is still crazy cheap. Hope that helps.
@weightelk6 ай бұрын
@@narwhaltacos2197 thanks for the insight! I still don't understand how UTXO works on chain vs lightning If I sent $1 each hour via lightning to muun until I accumulate $1000 , would I have 1000 UTXO? What if I sent that $1000 via lighting back to strike, then one on-chain transaction of $1000 to trezor? Lightning transactions don't have UTXOs right?
@BTCSessions6 ай бұрын
A lightning channel is a multisig between two nodes, that holds a UTXO of a certain value. When a lightning channel get closed, that utxo is split up between the two parties accordingly.
@ds783496 ай бұрын
@@narwhaltacos2197 He would have to worry if bitcoin does what we hope it does. I don't think it's far fetched to think that if bitcoin get mass adoption globally a $1000 UTXO could be worthless.
@pilotboba6 ай бұрын
Stirke can send on-chain too. Why do the extra hops?
@SlightlyCrypto-3 ай бұрын
I wonder if an API could feed a real time transaction fee reference to make the test net experience more realistic?
@davecorley55144 ай бұрын
Ben, your sessions on channel management, liquidity management and UTXO management are excellent. But I’ll admit I understand only 20% of much of it. Lightning inbound Liquidity management is especially baffling to me. I see a day when I’ll be making twenty micropayments per day with Lightning. But as I’ve experimented with Lightning in Phoenix, Greenlight and others, I find myself painted into a liquidity corner, having to pay commitment fees when I don’t expect to.
@ShivuHimachaliQueenkatoc-cv6qz6 ай бұрын
Can't decide between BTC and STX? Why not both? Staxum is my alt gem
@billabongboy95103 ай бұрын
Great Vid Ben and explained so well. One question. When you consolidate UTXO's, how does it differ to spending those UTXOs? Ie. I would have thought consolidating is still sending them to miners and there is a fee associated with each UTXO to 'consolidate' it down into 1 UTXO... so how does this differ to sending those same UTXO's to miners to spend? Feels like the fees would be the same.... Am sure there is s simple answer to this, thanks.
@joeaghe7633 ай бұрын
From my understanding , your utxo is charge as a single fee.. unlike when u have to send them without consolidation..
@digitalat25 ай бұрын
Question: does liquid bitcoin have this utxo problem?
@shkottrendezvous66444 ай бұрын
3:41 before starting and getting to the point. Ballsy. I missed all of it as a first time viewer… will see how we go.
@dandelionproductions39605 ай бұрын
Any idea how to consolidate with Tangem?
@dandelionproductions39605 ай бұрын
Do UTXOs apply to all cryptos or just BTC?
@remystern78185 ай бұрын
Is ledger safe
@zxx55 ай бұрын
could TET SoftNotes solve this headache? what do U think?
@NappyWayz6 ай бұрын
Question for you Ben, if there isn’t any soft or hard fork for bitcoin in the future, eventually, all UTXO’s will be in spendable? For example, if we are trying to finalize transactions, eventually, the UTX so fees will be too large to spend incoming UTXO “change” or dust? I’m not referring to layer 2 or 3s but ultimately, all future small balances will be unspendable.😢 am I missing something?
@BTCSessions6 ай бұрын
Fees will likely fluctuate, but we don't know where they'll settle over longer periods of time. We also don't know how the increased dollar value of Bitcoin will affect fee rates either. "Small" utxos will be a relative term based on what the average base layer transaction looks like. It could be that in 10 years Bitcoin is the global settlement layer and most of us never use it explicitly.
@NappyWayz6 ай бұрын
@@BTCSessions Thanks for answering my question. I like that theory. The base layer will be for governments and major business transactions. I hope during that time, the average person will still run nodes and not just leave it up to governments to corrupt.
@ds783496 ай бұрын
It seems like, for reasons stated above, just make your UTXOs in cold storage as big as possible. Crazy to think that if bitcoin does what people hope it will do, many many of them will be shocked to learn their urgency to get sats off exchanges like everyone in the community has told them to do will render their savings useless. Useless sovereign property rights.@@BTCSessions
@hfabundant6 ай бұрын
Thank you for explaining how to combine UTXOs! My question is: Is doing this a taxable event??
@BTCSessions6 ай бұрын
I would think of this as shuffling around bills in your own wallet. It never leaves your possession and never gets exchanged for another currency, asset, good or service. It’s like taking small bills and exchanging them for one large bill, but you can do it yourself without having to exchange with another person or business.
@hfabundant6 ай бұрын
@@BTCSessions I did exactly as you suggested, I created a transfer of 8 x 100,000 sats but it made me pay a fee of least 13636 sats or else it would not do the transaction. Plus, after 2 days, it has not confirmed even one one confirmation. So, it looks like it will take several days or maybe weeks to get confirmed, lol, like my other transfers have been taking. Have you had this happen?
@luigibuffone55332 ай бұрын
Please tell me an exchange with low fee in Europe
@Gcamel40515 күн бұрын
Why do consolidation transaction when you are obviously going to have to do a transaction anyway to spend your utxos. Or am i missing something
@UKBitcoinMaster6 ай бұрын
Awesome tutorial Ben. Just subbed to Wicked Smart Bitcoin too!
@cryptogil69445 ай бұрын
Wow.. I did not know anything about utxo's...
@BTCSessions5 ай бұрын
Hope this was helpful! Glad people are becoming aware :)
@phlezktravels6 ай бұрын
Time stamps?
@Meerlu4 ай бұрын
What is the diff in spending the fees to consolidate over just using bitcoin normally, and spending the fees as they come?
@mahdixn3 ай бұрын
same thing this guy is just talking to get views. ultimately your utxos will take space in the blockchain, and that’s what you are paying for, so adding an additional transaction to consolidate will just make you spend more money on a new utxo, so actually it’s just worse.
@SoshiSatoshi6 күн бұрын
Like this comment if you came straight over here after today’s Simply Bitcoin Live episode on UTXO Management. 🙌🏻
@heidivan6 ай бұрын
Queue the confused calculus meme 😂
@rationalevidence90955 ай бұрын
Q: Assuming there's a way to measure the total amount of UTXOs on bitcoin, i wonder if it represents a health metric for the ecosystem. Ideally more is better, yeah?
@MrRem76005 ай бұрын
you can view total UTXO's on chain on clark moody dashboard via the UTXO set size. I agree technically more is better and I monitor that state as a function of how much HODL'ing is happening on the network. At the moment it's about 161 Million transactions.
@Qcoin-qi7qy6 ай бұрын
So another way to fix the unspendable problem would be to send all of your DCA amounts to a personal wallet? How I personally go about my purchases is make purchases in my exchange ounce I reach .001 or .003 I will send to my cold wallet If I don't have a sparrow wallet. Does this sum it about right? And over the years as I learn about the cold wallets I will move my bitcoin to new cold wallets which keeps all of my bitcoin in one UTXO. Did I get this right?
@rationalevidence90955 ай бұрын
you're wasting a lot. if you buy on exchange, don't send to wallet until you have at least 0.01 btc. anything smaller is going to kill you in fees.
@lukeskyfeller9085 ай бұрын
Great summary about UTXO management! I was basically already aware of all these aspects at this point. There is just one question I am still left unanswered with : When you use one UTXO as a trasaction input and send an amount smaller than what you could to a destination address, will the transaction always drain the whole of the Bitcoin on the input UTXO? Using Blue Wallet on my android phone I sent a tx from one UTXO to another in the same wallet. As expected I got the output on my new address and the change on another adress that I did not specify in advance. BUT the wallet did not empty the whole input UTXO!! I was left with 2000sats on the input utxo! It seems to be related to the fact that these 2000sats were sent in a distinct tx to this utxo! I am annoyed about that. Apparently The history of sats in a UTXO matters!
@BTCSessions5 ай бұрын
Are the 2000 sats just the change? Because every time you use a UTXO in a transaction it is destroyed and new utxos are created. Typically if you had one utxo it would look like: one input ---> 3 outputs (recipient, change, fee to miners) The old input is used entirely no matter what. If you need to use two UTXOs, both of them will be used entirely.
@lukeskyfeller9085 ай бұрын
@@BTCSessions Thanks for your reply! No, the 2000 sats were left on the initial utxo. The change is bigger. Yes, one input ---> 3 outputs BUT the amount that is left stuck on the input corresponds to an earlier input to that address! So there were like 2 distinct coins on the same utxo. Now I did another tx draining all my wallet to a new address in the same wallet. It should be clean now.. (as soon as confirmed..)
@lukeskyfeller9085 ай бұрын
Ah.. Maybe UTXO is not equal "address". So you can have several utxo on the same address, right? @@BTCSessions
@themickles6 ай бұрын
I'm keeping 1% of my stack in liquid in jade and 1% in phoenix lightning. If fees skyrocket then it'll be too late to set those up.
@yehimstone54926 ай бұрын
Does strike or kraken support liquid?
@BTCSessions6 ай бұрын
Strike is actively looking into it. Unsure about Kraken. Bitfinex does.
@pilotboba6 ай бұрын
@@BTCSessions kraken doesn't support Linqid currently. Just main and lightning.
@user-qd5qc5os4h6 ай бұрын
My wallet uses an old address convention. Is there a way to update so I'm using a more efficient address type?
@BTCSessions6 ай бұрын
Best bet is to create a new seed, then migrate funds to the new wallet.
@pb85826 ай бұрын
I stop using bitcoin best thing I have ever done 👍 I'm over paying 10 bucks per transaction.
@sm0ki6 ай бұрын
Do I understand this correctly? UTXO consolidation is quite expensive, but you want to do it as soon as possible to avoid even higher fees in the (distant) future - correct?
@sm0ki6 ай бұрын
@@MrNicolinoTv I think we need a better solution for small UTXOs in the future. A lot of people DCA small amounts weekly or monthly, directly into their hardware wallets - as they should. 10 or 20 years down the line, their 2019 $100 weekly DCA UTXO might be unspendable because fees are too high?
@mr_digdeeper6 ай бұрын
@@sm0ki correct very unfortunate I think over a milllion sats UTXO is on the safe side.
@sadven6 ай бұрын
Setting aside the privacy concerns, I'm still puzzled..If there's a fee involved, what's the advantage of consolidating UTXOs within the wallet?
@mr_digdeeper6 ай бұрын
@@sadven consolidating your smaller UTXOs into larger ones make your future transactions spendable. Yes there is a fee to consolidate your UTXOs whatever the sat/vb is at the time of consolidation. Base off some research it looks like you want to consolidate UTXOs to a minimum of 1 million SATS. My UTXOs range from 1-3 million SATS.
@sm0ki6 ай бұрын
@@sadven Two advantages: 1) Really small UTXOs might be unspendable in the future, when fees are much higher. You can avoid this by combining several small UTXOs, creating one or more bigger ones. 2) Even if the UTXOs are big enough to spend them, the fees might be way too high in the future in relation to the total amount of the small UTXOs you want to spend. The idea is: Now that the fees are relatively low (compared to decades in the future), it's a good idea to practice UTXO consolidation. Disadvantage: Privacy concerns and high fees. There's no way around it, UTXO consolidation will cost you! Also, the whole "set it and forget it" narrative is over! You have to teach new Bitcoiners about UTXO consolidation.
@twig32886 ай бұрын
This nerdiness needs to be sorted out if btc is to become a mainstream currency
@BTCSessions6 ай бұрын
The internet existed for decades before the general public really started using it en-masse. Anyone using it now (not via an etf) is still going to have these technical hurdles to deal with. By the time it's easy for everyone, I also doubt that the average person will be using it on-chain in this manner.
@VicGonzza-wo9qz6 ай бұрын
FOMO kicking in as Staxum gears up for liftoff. Buckle up, folks!
@johnvaresio32256 ай бұрын
I’ve been buying bitcoin via Strike by dollar cost averaging . I’m getting ready to move my bitcoin onto a hard wallet. Will I run into the same high fees? Maybe a topic for another video?
@pilotboba6 ай бұрын
From the strike faq: On-chain send fees When you send funds with Strike via the Bitcoin network (also known as an on-chain transaction), you have the option to select how quickly your transaction is settled. For the faster delivery times (Priority and Standard), Strike charges an on-chain send fee. Strike does not charge an on-chain send fee for the Flexible delivery time. I assume they batch with flexible and also probably wait for low fee times. So, moving your DCA to your cold wallet shouldn't need to be fast, choose flexible.
@russbilderbackАй бұрын
Man I've been stacking sats since 2017 and thought I was pretty knowledgeable on Bitcoin, but I'm just learning about UTXO's. Welp.
@dammitdan84916 ай бұрын
So, if a global adoption were to occur, would we see a point where the average holder gets priced out of the network from fees?
@BTCSessions6 ай бұрын
Depends on what other base layer improvements happen before the protocol ossifies. If it stood still as it is now, on-chain fees will likely be regularly high, yes. In that case new users would mitigate custodial risk with things like federated models (Fedimint, Liquid, etc) If some base layer improvements happen, then you may have the possibility of partial ownership of a UTXO. Best to work with the tools we currently have though, and use new ones if/when they become available.
@ds783496 ай бұрын
Learning a lot here but getting jaded...more to custodial risk then just losing your keys, it seems like it is not beyond the realm of possibility that if we see mass adoption the network could grind to a halt or very slow churn used by only the select few. @@BTCSessions