Quote from: ruletheworld on January 25, 2018, 10:17:44 PM

Quote from: Anti-Cen on January 25, 2018, 09:40:40 PM

Quote from: Carlton Banks on January 25, 2018, 11:44:11 AM

There's still more than 100 MB of less than 10 satoshi per byte transactions queued in large mempools: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue (check the bottom graph)

I get paid in £-Notes and we measure data in megabytes not bytes these days so dress it up what ever way
you like but the fees are high

See https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees.html
Says the fees are $12.56 for just storing 256 bytes of data and it's not my fault that 20,000 fulls nodes
repeat the same work because I did not ask for them all to be here and 1000 would do the trick

You're wrong on many different levels, so let's analyze what you're saying.

First, according to https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees.html, the average fee is already around 12.5 sat/byte, which is significantly lower than in the past. However, that's not the whole story. Take a look at the mempool stats here: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue. This will give you a better idea of when your transactions can confirm. If they aren't urgent, you can put them as lower fee transactions hoping the miners will include them soon but not the next block.
Your reading of the fees as "$12.56 for just storing 256 bytes" is completely wrong. See the description above to learn what it means.
I think by 'work' you mean 'proof of work'. This isn't done by the nodes. The nodes simply check for transaction validity, and the honest nodes will only forward correct transactions on to the network, and reject the incorrect ones. This also includes accepting/rejecting blocks mined by miners. The miners are the ones that extend the blockchain, not the nodes.
Changing the node count from 20,000 to 1,000 as you say will not have any effect on the fees. This suggestion also tells me you have no idea how Bitcoin works or what makes it valuable.

You need to do a little more research into how Bitcoin works.

If you had researched Bitcoin you could know what he is trying to say, is that when you add 1 MB data to the blockchain, you are adding 10,000 MB if you have 10,000 full nodes. controlling the majority is controlling the longest chain.