Re:In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism
by aaaaaaaaata on Saturday April 02, 2022 @09:13AM
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How long before there's safe tech for relaying your transactions via other people's connections, as a cooperative distributed mesh, to improve confirmation and delivery speed of your own packets?
The last transaction fee I paid was 33ยข, and the average transaction in the last Bitcoin block was 913 bytes, so your internet access speed isn't an obstacle to sending a transaction as long as it's above about 20 bits per second; if you want to run a full node you need at least 17000 bits per second of internet access unless you're using the Blockstream satellite.
Typically I pay US$5 a month for cellphone internet access when I have it, but more commonly I use Wi-Fi in various places.