Re:Bitcoin's Use in Commerce Keeps Falling
by Retric on Sunday August 26, 2018 @12:31PM
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Average person pays fees twice. One buying the currency, and a second time at sale. On top of that exchanges have even more fees so, consumers are paying more than just one block chain fee.
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Re:Bitcoin's Use in Commerce Keeps Falling
by superkuh on Sunday August 26, 2018 @01:34PM
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That's not a big of a deal as you're making it out to be. I can say this because I use bitcoin regularly in commerce. I pay 3 cents equivalent (typical fast fee over the last handful of months) plus maybe 20 cents if I'm silly and use something like coinbase to purchase bitcoin initially.
And then my transaction clears in 10-20 minutes instead of a day or two like the banks' ACH network.
For 0 cents, my bank does overnight transactions.
For 10 cents they do it in under 10 seconds.
SEPA Inst is a thing now.