https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/ Plain-English guides to Bitcoin and Ethereum network data. en Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/bitcoin-fees-explained/ https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/bitcoin-fees-explained/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Bitcoin fee is the transaction’s size in virtual bytes (vB) multiplied by a fee rate in satoshis per vB. Sending 0.001 BTC or 10 BTC costs the same if the transactions are the same size; what changes the fee is the number of inputs, the address types and how busy the mempool is. https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/bitcoin-halving/ https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/bitcoin-halving/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The next halving happens at block 1,050,000, when the new-coin subsidy per block drops from 3.125 BTC to 1.5625 BTC. It is set by block height, not by date; at about ten minutes per block it is expected in 2028, and our countdown recomputes the estimate daily. https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/difficulty-adjustment/ https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/difficulty-adjustment/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every 2,016 blocks, each node compares how long those blocks actually took with the two-week target (20,160 minutes) and scales mining difficulty by that ratio, limited to a factor of four either way. Faster blocks raise difficulty; slower blocks lower it. https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/crypto-tax-basics/ https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/crypto-tax-basics/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT In both the US and UK, selling crypto for cash, swapping one coin for another and spending it are generally taxable disposals, while buying and holding, or moving coins between your own wallets, generally are not. Income such as staking rewards can be taxed when received. https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/crypto-scams-warning-signs/ https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/crypto-scams-warning-signs/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Treat any promise of guaranteed or unusually high returns, any request for your seed phrase, any demand to pay in crypto, and any fee required to withdraw your own money as a scam. Pause, verify independently through official channels, and report it. https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/ethereum-gas-base-fee/ https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/ethereum-gas-base-fee/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An Ethereum fee is the gas a transaction uses multiplied by the base fee plus your priority tip, both in gwei. A plain ETH transfer always uses 21,000 gas, so at a 0.8 gwei base fee and 0.2 gwei tip it costs 21,000 × 1 gwei = 0.000021 ETH. https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/mempool-explained/ https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/mempool-explained/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The mempool is the set of valid but unconfirmed transactions a node is holding while they wait for a block. It fills up when people broadcast more transactions than the roughly 1 million vB per block that miners can confirm, so low fee-rate transactions queue behind higher ones. https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/rbf-cpfp-stuck-transaction/ https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/rbf-cpfp-stuck-transaction/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT If you sent it, use Replace-By-Fee (RBF): broadcast a new version paying a higher fee. If you are the recipient, or RBF is unavailable, use Child-Pays-For-Parent (CPFP): spend the unconfirmed output with a high-fee child so miners include both together. https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/segwit-taproot-fees/ https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/segwit-taproot-fees/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Yes. Spending from a native SegWit (bc1q) address takes about 68 vB per input and Taproot (bc1p) about 57.5 vB, versus 148 vB for a legacy (1…) address. At the same fee rate a one-input payment costs roughly 35–40% less than legacy. https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/self-custody-basics/ https://dailycryptonews.online/guides/self-custody-basics/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Use a reputable wallet that gives you a seed phrase, write the phrase on paper or metal, store it offline where only you can reach it, never type it into a website, and send a small test amount before moving larger sums. Whoever has the seed phrase controls the coins.