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1JRj8E…B97Z Key · twetch

BTC transaction fees rise to 28-Month High as Hashrate Drops Amid Price Rally. What a revolutionary technology that costs more to use than most traditional payment methods! https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-transaction-fees-rise-28-163442528.html

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2020-10-30T20:49:45Z
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1JRj8E…B97Z Key · twetch
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Some are blaming hashrate fluctuations, but really he culprit is the block size cap. If there was some capacity headroom hashrate drops would be a non issue, there would be no need for "fee market", transactions would be reliable. BTC sucks by design.