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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Crypto's utility as a payment tool
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kryptqnick
on 29/05/2020, 08:39:56 UTC
By way of example, I'm trying to show that bitcoin's mechanisms makes so there's a direct connection between price and fee-value.
Yes, in a real world scenario there are more variables, but what evidence do we have to support that if prices were to go up that much, the value of fees wouldn't follow suit?
For the record, I wasn't trying to imply that there would be perfect correlation. But rather to show what bitcoin's fundamental's can lead to for fees.

There is none:
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees.html
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-price.html

Average fees from May 2017 till November were constantly over 2.5$, with the price being well below 6k$.
In May 2018 till October, with the price constantly above 6k the average fee was below 1$.
In January this year with prices over 10k we were still below 1$, now with prices below that we're at around 3-5$.

Even if the price does go way up and the correlation between price/fee value isn't great, but it's still there.

Nope, it's not.  Grin
I believe there is a common factor that is related both to the price and to the fees, however. I am talking about a larger than usual amount of transactions and the network getting overloaded. It can happen either when the price is rapidly growing, or when it's rapidly going down. Both events motivate some people that would normally just hodl their BTC to do something with them, and the consequence of that is higher fees for everyone. But since this can happen when the price is low as well as when it's high, I do agree that talking about the correlation between the price and the fees doesn't make sense.