Quote from: BlackBlue on January 05, 2018, 07:09:17 AM

Quote from: spngebob on December 25, 2017, 06:45:37 PM

I was telling my friends about bitcoin for almost a year and they decided to enter crypto world and buy some bitcoins.
Not much, 50-100$ worth bitcoins just to start with it and to see how it works.
But here is problem - if they buy bitcoins for 100$ they will get that minus 25-30$ fee and they will pay fee for next transaction, so their 100$ worth bitcoins will become 40$ worth bitcoins. How to explain them this??

Is this really what bitcoin become? Currency used for miners so they can earn more money?

Yes I feel you but miners can't control the fees. The higher the price of bitcoin, the higher the fee will be charge to us. Hoping for the next development of bitcoin they include to lower the fee.

No, the miners do indeed control the fees, there have been many speculations but the network is spammed to death almost everyday and that has happened for a long time and the only ones that benefit from such a thing are the miners so they are trying to push the prices of the fees higher in order to make more money that is why the devs went for segwit and the LN instead of just increasing the block size.