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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by pmorici on Saturday December 09, 2017 @01:36PM (#15887233)
What is low fee to you? Because there are people paying several bucks to do a transaction right now that are being dropped.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by moduspol on Saturday December 09, 2017 @01:43PM (#15887271)
Sorry—-I meant low relative to the other pending transactions. They’re not low at all relative to other payment methods.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by theWatcher37 on Saturday December 09, 2017 @03:05PM (#15887784)
This is certifiable.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by Spivak on Sunday December 10, 2017 @12:09AM (#15890044)
I mean from an end user perspective maybe but it's always been an auction where you can buy yourself priority. Nothing has really changed except now there are more people bidding higher.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by pmorici on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:29PM (#15893045)
The thing that has changed is that the supply has been artificially limited where as before there was ample supply.
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