Quote from: Smartvirus on Today at 06:40:55 PM

Quote from: we-btc on Today at 03:39:16 PM

There are a couple of key points to consider: First, If miners can change Bitcoin to increase the fees is Bitcoin really decentralized? Second, and most importantly, do these increased fees help bitcoin to be a better form of digital cash?

Having to say that, miners do set the fee which questions of Bitcoin is truly decentralized is a misconception. Supposedly you’ve ever had to initiate a Bitcoin transaction at any point, you’re sure to set your fees and not miners. You might have the illusion that, this is been predetermined by a miner in systems that requires them to set a fee limit but, no such thing exists.

Now, understand this.
We have more than one miner out there. There are lots of miners out there with their rigs, doing them computation tasks for block rewards and other benefits that follows having to discover the next block. Given that, other miners would just have to wait in line when the fees are high and then it later drops, where does that place those miners that have been waiting in line as far as benefit goes when the fee has dropped?

That’s to say, they don’t get to decide these things but, network congestion which is directly proportional to users action and inaction does.
Don’t forget, Bitcoin operates a consensus rule and as such, everyone and every Satoshi do matter on the network.

I am not saying that the miners set the fees. What I am saying is that the fees are directly related to network congestion. By adding Runes and Inscriptions to the network there is more congestion and the fees are higher. The miners, who just lost 50% of their revenue, know this and have been planning for this for a long time. Their businesses have to remain profitable otherwise they will go out of business. It is highly probable that miners and pools have influenced the developers to add ordinals to the network in order to increase its traffic and compensate for the halving.