# System is telling me not enought BTC to pay transaction fees... But I have enough **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [January 19, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/system-is-telling-me-not-enought-btc-to-pay-transaction-fees-but-i-have-enough/4465 "2018-01-19T13:42:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![jdogresorg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/jdogresorg/32/1349_2.png) [@jdogresorg](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/jdogresorg)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/system-is-telling-me-not-enought-btc-to-pay-transaction-fees-but-i-have-enough/4465/2 "2018-01-19T15:52:46Z")
> [@Why counterwallet keep raising transfer fee? Do it again and again never get enought](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/why-counterwallet-keep-raising-transfer-fee-do-it-again-and-again-never-get-enought/3722/3): > > The fee charged for a bitcoin transaction is based off the size of the transaction (inputs and outputs). If you have a bunch of tiny inputs (tiny amounts of bitcoin) then the transaction will continue to grow in size until there is enough BTC inputs in the transaction to pay for the miners fees. The reason the fees keep going up for you is because you continue to send tiny bits of bitcoin to solve the problem, which only makes the problem worse. You send a tiny bit, that tiny bit makes the next… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/system-is-telling-me-not-enought-btc-to-pay-transaction-fees-but-i-have-enough/4465)._