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Re:Due to Bitcoin network fees, customer loses $10 trying to... by alanfalcon on Thursday November 23, 2017 @06:56PM (#15768654)
That’s not true at all in practice. If it were then we’d be seeing 2x as many transactions confirming after SegWit went live (we’re not).
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Re:Due to Bitcoin network fees, customer loses $10 trying to... by warbiscuit on Thursday November 23, 2017 @07:50PM (#15768824)
Segwit was a soft-fork upgrade. It only takes effect if you move to a Segwit compatible wallet and send from there.

Which tells me people don't actually care enough, or they'd be doing that.

Which makes me wonder about the validity of the majority of the complaints.

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Re:Due to Bitcoin network fees, customer loses $10 trying to... by Daishiman on Friday November 24, 2017 @12:27AM (#15769588)
Maybe because nobody's using Bitcoin as a currency and it's all speculation.

Currencies actually get used for transactions...

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Re:Due to Bitcoin network fees, customer loses $10 trying to... by phaemon on Friday November 24, 2017 @05:41AM (#15770442)
That's an interesting theory, considering this story is about someone using Bitcoin for a transaction.

EDIT: it's Friday, be nicer me

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Re:Due to Bitcoin network fees, customer loses $10 trying to... by warbiscuit on Sunday November 26, 2017 @07:22AM (#15780586)
That doesn't fit. Per bitinfocharts.com the coin with the highest txn rate is Ethereum, followed closely by Bitcoin. The others are far behind. I'd say it's seeing a lot of use.
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Re:Due to Bitcoin network fees, customer loses $10 trying to... by nadaviv on Saturday November 25, 2017 @02:12AM (#15774838)
The capacity was increased (more than doubled). Now its a matter of utilizing this new capacity by upgrading to SegWit-supporting wallets.

Note that upgrading your own wallet to SegWit immediately saves you about 50% on mining fees, regardless of whether other network participants upgraded or not.

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