Quote from: maku on June 17, 2017, 12:15:09 PM

Quote from: SingAlong on June 12, 2017, 09:09:42 AM

The thing is newbies will get it in the hard way especially now that they can't do small transactions since fees will surely eat up their hard earned Bitcoin. Now that's sad. But it is not impossible since it really is feasible to achieve 1 BTC as long as you have the determination and eager to learn more as to how you will earn more.

Fees are not that ridiculous, they are high but if you didn't collect dust in your wallet you will manage. If you don't need to use BTC so wait for the scaling solution to be implemented.
Bitcoin upgrade which awaits us in the second half of the year hopefully will reduce fee rates significantly. Util then use bitcoin as emergency payment method only.

Exactly. The fees are not terrible if you have anything that isn't just small amounts in your wallet from whatever faucet you've been using. If they were as bad as everyone wanted to say they are, people simply would stop using Bitcoin and that would be the end of it for a lot of people. But they keep coming back, or never leave in the first place.

Wasn't there some agreement made for implementing segwit within the next 3-4 months? I could have sworn I saw something about an agreement like that which had 80%-some of the hashing power, along with many businesses, behind it.