Quote from: Yogee on Today at 03:44:20 PM

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...the reality is that most altcoins such as ETH have a worse scaling problem than bitcoin. in fact it is at least 60 times worse and yet they lied about it and the creator Vitalik Buterin claimed once that ETH fees will never ever go above 1 cent!!!

I can't believe he even said that. That was definitely a marketing stunt.

Quote from: SimpleMan on May 11, 2021, 08:48:47 PM

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When I last checked the transaction fees they were still double digit. I thought about depositing BTC at an exchange but no was too expensive.

This is the main reason why I made this post. There are many people who don't check first before making a conclusion that it's expensive. You can use tools such as https://mempool.space/ to monitor fees. The fastest fee right now is 34 sats/vbyte which is ~$4.

Quote from: kotajikikox on Today at 05:18:40 AM

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But you did not pay attention to Ripple (XRP)?

I would have included if it was more expensive. The title of the topic says "lower".

Well then thanks for sharing. ~$4 is a justifiable amount for a transaction compared to a couple of alts where fees are plainly unbearable. The disadvantage with Bitcoin still is the number of confirmations and the time it takes until a deposit is confirmed. That can be annoying, but if there is no time pressure it's worth using Bitcoin over others.