Who killed Bitcoin - Documentary.
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BTC got compromised by keeping the block size small so transaction fees went through the roof. No one is going to use it for normal commerce if you have to pay a $20+ fee just to spend it. Blockstream is the main developer team promoting small blocks, funded by Digital Currency Group, which is funded by Master Card. The perfect way for them to kill BTC from within. Blockstream also develops layer 2 solutions on top of the bitcoin network called the Lightning Network which only works if Bticoin is crippled with expensive transactions forcing users to use the Lightning network.
Crypto is definitely the future, but sadly they've succeeded in sabotaging BTC imo. Here's a good debate on whether small blocks are needed for Bitcoin's security.
I just read today that fees are like 20 cents and done in 10 mins.
Where is this $20 xfer number coming from?
Or is he just dooming and trying to get people out of Bitcoin? (Semites HATE BTC)
Right now they're sitting above 80 cents, If you look at the graph, starting in Jan 2021, the fees were above $10 for a solid 5 months, including above $20 for one month, peaking at $40+ for a week.
Who's going to use it for grocery shopping if you have to pay an additional $10 fee for 5 months every few years. No one is going to use it for small online payments with fees like that, which leaves the door open for fiat, or flooding the crypto market with alts.
Bitcoin used to have 80%+ of the crypto market share which started falling at the exact same time transaction fees started creeping up from cents to dollars in late 2016.
Gold is way better than Fiat but people swapped to Fiat because it was much more convenient, Bitcoin will suffer the same fate if Fiat has virtually $0 transaction fees while BTC is stuck with $2+ regularly. When people have to convert their BTC to fiat every time they want to buy something, they'll realize it's just easier to hold Fiat.
But Bitcoin is resilient and did exactly what a decentralized network is supposed to do, it forked and created BCH when tx fees crippled BTC. Master Card can't stop crypto no matter how much money they throw at the main BTC dev team. It got so ridiculous, that the CEO of Blockstream was asked how small businesses are supposed to accept BTC with high tx fees, and he suggested they just keep a tab of how much customers owe and pay later in a large sum to make fees smaller.
Satoshi Nakamoto said in the first paragraph of the Whitepaper that Bitcoin is supposed to be capable of "small casual transactions", if it's not useful for that, then Fiat will have justification to exist forever, and if other Alt coins have zero conf and tiny fees, why can't Bitcoin?
u/lash Thanks for ur comment, i concur.
Nobody is using BTC to buy groceries. My bro bought a nice steak dinner in Vegas just to use some BTC up. But for the most part it's never intended for small purchases.
Just like nobody uses gold bars to buy a soda But both are a store of money.
And how is gold's market cap doing compared to global Fiat?
That is exactly u/FlyingScotzman s point. It was usable for groceries, but with "replace by fee", the slowness when lacking 0-conf (because of replace by fee) and the high fees, it is obviously not going to be used in normal commerce because that's how they killed it.
Read the whitepaper or go bust.
It was absolutely intended for those type of usages. The author (Satoshi) even wrote about vending machine examples.
Satoshi described how zero conf will work for vending machines, and the white paper says "small casual transactions".
Satoshi didn't even want the 1mb block limit, it was Hal Finney's idea, and Satoshi only agreed because it was a good temporary measure to prevent a spam attack while Bitcoin was vulnerable in it's infancy. Satoshi also wrote how the block size should be increased with advances in hardware.
It can be phased in, like: if (blocknumber > 115000) maxblocksize = largerlimit
20 cent and 10 min is a big difference from how it was designed (less than a cent, with instant/0-conf transactions).
Besides, try to look at how the fees are during massive movements when transactions skyrocket. That's when the replace by fee panic starts and nobody is able to move anything on the base layer without paying a fortune.
You newbies have no idea what you missed out on.