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Re:Robinhood Opens Cryptocurrency Trading by tmat on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:51PM (#16440796)
i just sent a transaction for 6 cents and it was included in the next block.. that problem is resolved.

so you can see i'm not making shit up https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/8b420f5e6548865535381fdb...

That's a 2sat/byte transaction... come on man! this is amazing for shop owners.

wait until lightning network and its INSTANT.

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Re:Robinhood Opens Cryptocurrency Trading by Rychard on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:48PM (#16443788)
The problem isn't resolved; the steep drop in fees has everything to due with the drastically smaller amount of pending transactions.
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Re:Robinhood Opens Cryptocurrency Trading by tmat on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:48PM (#16518794)
That's because of Segwit adoption and Batching.
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