High Bitcoin Cash fees on Bitcoin.com wallet when sweeping paper wallet

[PedroR82]

I updated my Bitcoin.com wallet for Android to the latest version and I was trying to help a friend sweep BCH from a paper wallet.
The sweep functionality worked very well, but the fee on the transaction was really high for Bitcoin Cash.

This is what I did to show my friend.
1 - I sent a small amount of BCH (equivalent to 1€ at the time) to a paper wallet I had laying around.
The transaction worked as expected and the fee was less than 1 cent also as expected. This is the tx:

https://explorer.bitcoin.com/bch/tx/07d ... b984b5b7d4

2 - I scanned the private key on the paper wallet and swept it to my Bitcoin Cash wallet.
This time the transaction fee was really high (around 80 cents) and I even got a message on the Bitcoin.com wallet claiming that the resulting balance is too low to spend due to high fees. This is the tx:

https://explorer.bitcoin.com/bch/tx/044 ... bb00d42bc2

So my question is about how those fees are calculated.
Maybe the code is old and is calculating fees based on Bitcoin network instead of Bitcoin Cash?

It's not important for this one transaction, but maybe somebody (programmer) could look into this.

Thanks anyway, the wallet works very well for me.

[gianloots]

Hi, I had the same issue.
I just recently discovered the awesomeness that is BCH and it is fantastic.
The paper wallet is amazing, especially in Africa where internet is scarce and phones basic.
But why does it have such expensive fees to sweep the wallet.
I recently sweeped my memo.cash wallet and it sent cheaply (1sat/byte) but with my own paperwallet I sent 2 transactions to it and when I withdrew the fees were at 29sat/byte. Crazy!

Please let me know if you have figured out how to change it, or if there's a better place to make a paper wallet.

[don911]

I also swept a paper wallet today with the Bitcoin.com iOS wallet. The fee was 52 sat/b for a total of 10,000 sats! I don't see why the fee for sweeping a paper wallet should be higher than the standard fee of 1 sat/b. Perhaps there is a bug or an incorrect setting in the wallet software? Please let us know what's going on.

[bitkilo]

Hi guys,

Thanks for reporting.
We are aware of this problem, and the devs are looking for a fix. Hopefully have something ready to push into the next update