Poor fee estimates waste Bitcoin users' money, sometimes 10x more than necessary.
We built Augur, a mempool-based fee estimator that cuts costs without compromising reliability. It's now open source.
Used in production by Cash App. Available for everyone.
https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/augur-an-open-source-bitcoin-fee-estimation-library
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2025-07-01 21:26:51 UTC
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