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Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later by lawn on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:14AM (#21628760)
No, it's so cheap because Bitcoin has full blocks and people have to outbid each other to get their transaction through. Bitcoin Cash could handle at least 20x the volume of Bitcoin, with the same low fees.

It's not Bitcoin Cash that's special. It's Bitcoin, but in a bad way. Even Monero has very low fees with better capacity for example.

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Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later by ppf on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:26AM (#21628883)
If that's the case, why is the transaction count per time period for Bitcoin Cash about 20% of Bitcoin's? On the other hand, it's a significant problem that Bitcoin Cash has about 2% of the hashrate of Bitcoin. Any sensible person would not put any significant value into Bitcoin Cash when such a small percentage of Bitcoin miners could reorg the chain.
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