Transaction Fee
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
Time and resources are required in order for miners and validators to hash and sign a block on the blockchain, a transaction fee the the blockchain users is an incentive mechanism for the miners and validators to contine playing their role and securing the network with computational powers.
Transaction fees are usually nominal and free-market based, where users can set the amount of fee they are willing to pay and the miners able to set the preference for which transaction to mine and reward from until an equilibrium is met.
Related Terms
Derivatives Market
A market for derivatives which are instruments such as futures or options whose value is derived from an underlying asset.
Mempool
It is the abbreviation of Memory Pool. Set of unconfirmed transactions in a blockchain
Market Order / Market Buy / Market Sell
A market order is a buy or sell order of stocks or cryptocurrency at the best price available in the current market as soon as possible.
Public Blockchain
An open sourced blockchain where participation is public and permissionless
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