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moduspol
on Dec 9, 2017
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Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale?
Dropping low-fee unconfirmed transactions is not the same as not accepting transactions.
pmorici
on Dec 9, 2017
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What is low fee to you? Because there are people paying several bucks to do a transaction right now that are being dropped.
moduspol
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Sorry—-I meant low relative to the other pending transactions. They’re not low at all relative to other payment methods.
theWatcher37
on Dec 9, 2017
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This is certifiable.
Spivak
on Dec 10, 2017
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I mean from an end user perspective maybe but it's always been an auction where you can buy yourself priority. Nothing has really changed except now there are more people bidding higher.
pmorici
on Dec 10, 2017
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The thing that has changed is that the supply has been artificially limited where as before there was ample supply.
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