Quote from: Wind_FURY on December 16, 2017, 04:27:41 AM

Quote from: jerry0 on December 13, 2017, 06:15:48 PM

I haven't sent btc in a while. Back when i sent btc, fees were less than 50 cents. Maybe 3 dollars? I went and tried to send less than 30 dollars of btc... fees show up as 12 dollars on electrum and thats with the lowest possible fee where i make it send within 25 blocks. Now if you want to send under 1 dollar, it cost 12 dollars. When is this issue getting fixed? Who in their right mind would send btc for small amounts when even the fee is that much? Its like paying 12 dollars for something you want to buy that is 1 dollar?

The reason for high fees is because your wallet and the services you are sending Bitcoins to do not have Segwit enabled. Segwit increases the transaction capacity in each block by almost 2x. But why is Bitcoin's biggest services not enabling it?

It is right there sitting on the network waiting to be used! Plus the increase in transaction throughput by almost 2x may not sound much but it is enough to help lower fees.

yup the price now of BITCOIN IS HIGH and I don't be surprised of the fees. my CONVERSION from 180 USD to btc is about 20 Dollars .. in my local money ranging form .00904636 coins. My earnings from ICO is just alloted to fees . Undecided exchanging tokens to eth to convert to BTC is just meh. fees are so high .same as me well and I think it is also a part of commission of exchanger sites fees are 0.001BTC