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Re:Sabotaging Bitcoin by rcxdude on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @05:19AM (#46442941)
Is a store of value that requires a significant fraction of it be eaten up by transaction fees to maintain security going to be actually useful in the long term?
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Re:Sabotaging Bitcoin by _heimdall on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @07:17AM (#46443512)
With regards to transaction fees, bitcoin is already not particularly useful today. It can make sense to be used as an alternative to wire transfers where you only occasionally send a transaction, but it isn't useful as a currency and any day to day transactions have to happen off chain and not use bitcoin at all.
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Re:Sabotaging Bitcoin by rcxdude on Thursday January 01, 2026 @02:50PM (#46457380)
Right, which is why one has to wonder who's going to want to pay enough transaction fees to secure the network.
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