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Re:Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’ by darkstar999 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:43AM (#15923744)
Except that bitcoin transaction cost is what, $10 or $15 now? There's no way "unbanked" people will benefit from that, at all.
Re:Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’ by montecarl on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:50AM (#15923851)
Yes. For right now, the demand for transactions is greatly outstripping the fixed supply of transactions that the network can provide. Nobody has convincingly solved the problem (IOTA, I'm looking at you...). Altcoins don't have this problem yet either because they are not as widely used and those that can do more transactions per second have blockchains that would be growing very quickly in size if the blocks were close to full.

None of the current globally distributed trustless ledgers cannot support a huge number of transactions per second. We will need new technologies, possibly on top of bitcoin, or through new technology.

Re:Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’ by Rmilb on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:04PM (#15924682)
There have been low transaction fees in the past and they can return. Currently that is not the case.
Re:Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’ by Tepix on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:56AM (#15923920)
He wrote crypto, not bitcoin.
Re:Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’ by matt4077 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:03PM (#15924663)
Yet the economists they're mocking were asked about bitcoin.
Re:Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’ by KasianFranks on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:43PM (#15924388)
Good point.