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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: $0.85 transaction fee is absolutely ridiculous!
by
BawsyBoss
on 18/05/2017, 14:34:48 UTC
the fees are actually over $13 per transaction when you include the block reward!  This averages out to only 0.5% of the total transaction volume which is pretty cheap for proven security.  

small transactions are somewhat subsidizing larger ones because of the tx fees.. which i think is obviously terrible for the currency.

The fees seemingly need to be pegged to a USD amount, or at least the protocol should be aware of the value of USD, respective bitcoin. I say this not to extol the supremacy of the dollar, but to peg the fees to a reasonable marker. USD is ubiquitous and already somewhat of a global standard. I love bitcoin going to the moon, but it sucks that the fees had to come along too Wink
This makes no sense. Bitcoin should not depend at all on any other currency. It should be self sufficient.