Fees and confirmations

Biscuit sets the Monero fee by itself from how busy the network is. The fee goes to the miner of the block; Biscuit takes nothing.

Choosing the priority

Turn on Settings › Transactions › Manual fee-tier selection and a choice appears on Send: Automatic, Low, Normal, High or Highest. A higher priority pays more to be included sooner when blocks are full. Most of the time, Automatic is right.

Subtract fee from outputs, on the same page, adds a Subtract fee from amount option on Send: the recipient gets the amount minus the fee, instead of you paying it on top.

Confirmations

A Monero block comes about every two minutes. A payment usually gets its first confirmation within a few minutes, and the coins received can be spent after 10 confirmations, about 20 minutes. Your change is locked the same way: see Balance.

A payment is slow

Look it up on a block explorer: right-click it in History › View on block explorer.

• If it’s there, waiting in the pool, it will be confirmed. Monero has no way to raise the fee of a sent payment; unless the network is under unusual load, it won’t take long.
• If it isn’t there, the node didn’t pass it on. See A payment I sent failed.

Other transaction settings

Multibroadcast outgoing transactions

Sends each payment to several nodes, so it reaches the network even if one node is badly connected.

Always open advanced transaction dialog

Shows the inputs, outputs and ring members of every payment before you confirm it.

Require password to spend

Asks for your password before each payment.