Quote from: franky1 on May 05, 2023, 08:38:49 PM

Quote from: darkangel11 on May 05, 2023, 07:58:55 PM

There's no clog, only a lot of people trying to outbid each other for the first block transaction. Every time this happens there's a spike in fees, but there are many ways to go around it, or simply ignore it. One of them is to use LN, the other is to opt out of the race and pay much less fee than required to be in the fist block. I never overpay and it's completely fine for me to wait 30min. Just going from 0 to 25 min lowers your fee by 40%. 25 min is nothing, I can make myself lunch in that time, or take a dump and a shower afterwards and be back to see my TX confirmed.

telling people bitcoin is completely fine to wait longer.. and then advertise people should instead use another network. is not a great way to promote bitcoin

LN is not even going to help in this scenario as even the L1 contact points are swamped with transactions, so on-chain settlement will take a long an unknown amount of time.

Quote from: serjent05 on May 05, 2023, 09:13:48 PM

Quote from: Findingnemo on May 05, 2023, 01:03:42 PM

Sorry for another topic about the recent issue going related to bitcoin network congestion but I really want to know that Bitcoin ordinals so called NFTs is really going to change the fee required for the transaction in the future?

We do not need the wait for the future, the Bitcoin Ordinals had been affecting the network traffic and the transaction fee. It is too obvious that the Bitcoin Ordinals is creating a problem to the regular users.

Ordinals are not the reason for the current congestion, before BRC20 it was normal for transaction fees to be 20/30 sats per byte, and now we all know how exorbitant the fees are now. BRC20 is using the same protocol loophole as Ordinals but it is not using any Ordinals software.