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Current fees
UTC: 10:37 19 Nov 2025
These are the current fees charged by the @V4VApp when swapping Hive or HBD into or Lightning. All fees are converted from Sats to Hive/HBD using live rates from 
Notes:
- Fees are only chanrged when converting Hive/HBD into sats or vice versa.
- Depositing Sats and Paying With Sats (PayWithSats and KeepSats ) will not have significant fees (there is a 0.001 Hive fee for notifications)
- Example: if sats are sent to the Lightning Address
yourhivename@sats.v4v.appthey will be held as KeepSats on v4v.app. You can use these sats to pay for a Lightning invoice without being charged a conversion fee. - Example: if sats are sent to
yourhivename@v4v.appyou will receiveHiveafter a fee is deducted. If they are sent toyourhivename@hbd.v4v.appyou will receiveHBDagain after a fee. - Converting a sats balance held as KeepSats on v4v.app to Hive/HBD will carry a fee.
- Rates are taken from publicly available rate api's as close to the transaction time as possible.
This services is offered as an experiemental service: if you have any issues using it the utmost efforts will be made to make you happy.
| Fees | Sats | Hive | HBD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversion fee (flat) | 50 sats | 0.417 Hive | 0.047 HBD | |
| Conversion fee (percentage) | 1.70% | |||
| Minimum invoice | 250 sats | 2.09 Hive | 0.24 HBD | |
| Maximum invoice | 150,000 sats | 1,251.65 Hive | 142.32 HBD |
Rate Limits
Each Hive user is limited to the following amounts in the following periods:
| Hours | Limit sats | Hive | HBD |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 hours | 400,000 | 3,337.7 Hive | 379.5 HBD |
| 72 hours | 800,000 | 6,675.5 Hive | 759.1 HBD |
| 168 hours | 1,200,000 | 10,013.2 Hive | 1,138.6 HBD |
HBD to Sats Examples
The following amounts of HBD will give approximately this amount in sats:
| HBD | Sats |
|---|---|
| 1 | 982 |
| 2 | 2,014 |
| 5 | 5,109 |
| 10 | 10,269 |
| 20 | 20,587 |
| 50 | 51,544 |
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