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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by geofft on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:55PM (#15911368)
Why are Litecoin's transaction fees multiple orders of magnitude smaller than Bitcoin's? Is this a result of genuinely better technical decisions than in Litecoin (mining is cheaper because it's less hardware-friendly, blocks are generated more quickly) or just lower transaction volume / demand for transactions because it's less well-known? That is, if Bitcoin somehow implodes tomorrow and everyone moves to Litecoin, would you still expect similarly low Litecoin fees?

Was this an on-chain transaction or a Lightning transaction?

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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by zik on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:51AM (#15912524)
Bitcoin's pretty broken at the moment due to some bad decisions by the development team. All other cryptocurrencies have very low fees.
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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by a_tractor on Thursday December 14, 2017 @07:38PM (#15928805)
As I continue to learn about the broader cryptocurrency scene and the emerging ecosystem, I have been looking at Bitcoin more and more as the Model T of crypto and less like the BMW i8...
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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by Frogolocalypse on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:27AM (#15913363)
The price of bitcoin disagrees with your assessment.
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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by a_tractor on Thursday December 14, 2017 @07:08PM (#15928625)
>The price of bitcoin disagrees with your assessment.

What does the price of bitcoin have to do with an objective assessment of how well the Bitcoin network is currently functioning?

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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by Frogolocalypse on Thursday December 14, 2017 @08:47PM (#15929097)
If it wasn't working, people wouldn't be buying it. You are just going to have to accept that the great bulk of people who use bitcoin do not care about your use case.
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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by cdiddy2 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:21AM (#15912627)
partially its the 4x increase in transaction throughput, but also a lot less people use litecoin than bitcoin
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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by Frogolocalypse on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:53PM (#15912105)
> Why are Litecoin's transaction fees multiple orders of magnitude smaller than Bitcoin's?

Supply and demand. People pay more to transact in bitcoin, because it is more secure, because it is more decentralized.

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