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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: BitCoin and bitcoin high transaction fees
by
bryant.coleman
on 02/10/2020, 07:03:40 UTC
I don't understand , I live in india and here we can use UPI like google pay and phonepay to easily pay money within seconds and a touch and no extra cost or transaction fees is taken . But when i try to ay with bitcoin like 1000 ruppes i have to pay around 120 ruppes in fees to get the transaction done in 10minutes .  So for a order of 1000 i have to pay 1120 ruppes and also wait for 10minutes for the transaction to be done .

So why is bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency more reliable or disruptive if it cant even help me in paying a simple small amount . Can somebody lease elaborate what i am missing here . Thanks in advance

Your point is very much valid, and this is one of the reasons why many of the merchants have removed Bitcoin as a payment method. Under current circumstances, it doesn't make any economic sense to use Bitcoin for medium-sized payments. I would rather treat it as an investment asset, rather than as a currency. You can use it for payments, in special circumstances (such as making cross-border transactions, or to make anonymous payments).