Average Transaction Fee shows the mean fee paid per Bitcoin transaction on a given day. It converts the day’s total fee pool into satoshis per transaction, so it describes average fee burden rather than aggregate fee revenue.
A rising series means the average transaction became more expensive. A falling series means average fee burden eased. It is most useful with Median Transaction Fee and Transaction Fee (P90), which show whether the move reached the center of the distribution or stayed in the upper tail.
The key limitation is the mean itself. A smaller set of expensive transactions can lift the average even when the typical transaction changed much less. That is why this metric is a useful summary, but not the canonical anchor of the fee family.
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