$0.85 transaction fee is absolutely ridiculous! - page 9.

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Quote from: zonik on June 03, 2017, 04:53:39 PM

Eth was not meant to make payments the way bitcoin was.

https://medium.com/@edmundedgar/why-ethereum-is-great-for-payments-ee80c5cb912a
"Ethereum is a great technology for sending people money on the internet. Maybe it wasn’t supposed to be, but it is."

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Quote from: Alicia Keys on June 03, 2017, 08:00:00 AM

Now is more expensive because of bitcoin's rise, I worry about less ppl will use ETH instead. It is crazy to pay so much as fee.

Eth was not meant to make payments the way bitcoin was.

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Quote from: Shenzou on June 03, 2017, 01:55:54 PM

The fees are totaly insane, i have an Xapo wallet i wanted to send 10$ worth of bitcoin and the standerd fees were about 5$, is thnis really what bitcoin has come to these days are we going have to pay 50% of the transaction as fee for miners, in this case using bitcoin will have no point we will be better off using PayPal or other payment methods that has fixed fees

they have their own policy to make your transaction fast to prove their service, like 1~2 hours and done.
but i doubt that you still want to use their service. because im also using Xapo in the past and move before the system updated
i suggest you to move into manual fee set to survive on this price rate

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Quote from: Shenzou on June 03, 2017, 01:55:54 PM

The fees are totaly insane, i have an Xapo wallet i wanted to send 10$ worth of bitcoin and the standerd fees were about 5$, is thnis really what bitcoin has come to these days are we going have to pay 50% of the transaction as fee for miners, in this case using bitcoin will have no point we will be better off using PayPal or other payment methods that has fixed fees

We just have to accept the fact that we have to pay higher fee now until this problem is patched. If we do not follow the transaction fee rule, we will be the one getting much more damage since we have to wait for the whole day or more

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The fees are totaly insane, i have an Xapo wallet i wanted to send 10$ worth of bitcoin and the standerd fees were about 5$, is thnis really what bitcoin has come to these days are we going have to pay 50% of the transaction as fee for miners, in this case using bitcoin will have no point we will be better off using PayPal or other payment methods that has fixed fees

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Quote from: Dabs on June 02, 2017, 09:18:32 PM

I notice that with the current version of Core (0.14.1) there is no 1 block estimate anymore. The lowest estimate (fastest) is 2 blocks. If you look at the numbers closely, bitcoinfees.21.co is just slightly higher than what you have on your Core client. Depending on the transaction sometimes I use whatever value is displayed there and add a satoshi to the total, or a satoshi to the fee per byte. The tx will get included quickly either way.

As far as I can remember, Core has always given me a 2 block estimation. On one of my machines I still have v0.12.1 installed (have been too lazy to update -- will do right now), and here it also just gives you a 2 block estimation. What Core client did you use that gave you 1 block estimations?

Dabs

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I saw an ETH transaction with a $6000 fee. But then it was for $3 million.

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I have paid well over 5 USD in fees just to get bits of Bitcoin out on time. It is expensive so now I don't just send out small bits anymore. I have to have at least 0.1 btc in my pot before I decide to send it out anywhere.

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Quote from: stompix on June 03, 2017, 09:26:31 AM

Quote from: ThirdGear on June 02, 2017, 07:30:56 PM

A fixed fee would be best and perhaps an express fee if it needs to be done fast.

A fixed fee would be a disaster.
A fixed fee on what , I suppose you don;t want on tx because that would bring a wave a spam but a fix fee on kb?

And how do we prioritize transactions.. based on the timestamp?
That would mean somebody with 2000$ to burn might might stop the whole world from transacting for 1h just for the fun of it and there would be no way to avoid it.

Fixed fees or % fees are just stupid.
Let the free market decide.

It's difficult to have fixed fee when we all knew that alt and btc were not stable so fees will just depend on their value.

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Quote from: ThirdGear on June 02, 2017, 07:30:56 PM

A fixed fee would be best and perhaps an express fee if it needs to be done fast.

A fixed fee would be a disaster.
A fixed fee on what , I suppose you don;t want on tx because that would bring a wave a spam but a fix fee on kb?

And how do we prioritize transactions.. based on the timestamp?
That would mean somebody with 2000$ to burn might might stop the whole world from transacting for 1h just for the fun of it and there would be no way to avoid it.

Fixed fees or % fees are just stupid.
Let the free market decide.

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Now is more expensive because of bitcoin's rise, I worry about less ppl will use ETH instead. It is crazy to pay so much as fee.

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Quote from: vohoanghiep5555 on June 03, 2017, 07:42:30 AM

Quote from: CoinTasker on May 05, 2017, 04:22:48 AM

Am I the only one realizing that ~$1 fee to make a transaction is absolutely insane and defeats one of the core benefits of using bitcoin for daily transactions.

This is getting insane and is completely uncalled for, or am I wrong?

What you said is absolutely wrong. The $ 0.85 transaction fee is not large and is perfectly reasonable. Nothing is free while you also make money from Bitcoin so why are you asking for free? You should learn to accept, let go to get back

Bitcoin shouldn't be a "money making" machine. people don't want this sort of volatile currencies when holding large amount of money, especially if they hold amounts they cannot afford to lose. when bitcoin becomes less volatile, mainstream people will start to consider it as an option.

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Quote from: CoinTasker on May 05, 2017, 04:22:48 AM

Am I the only one realizing that ~$1 fee to make a transaction is absolutely insane and defeats one of the core benefits of using bitcoin for daily transactions.

This is getting insane and is completely uncalled for, or am I wrong?

What you said is absolutely wrong. The $ 0.85 transaction fee is not large and is perfectly reasonable. Nothing is free while you also make money from Bitcoin so why are you asking for free? You should learn to accept, let go to get back

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Quote from: CoinTasker on May 05, 2017, 04:22:48 AM

Am I the only one realizing that ~$1 fee to make a transaction is absolutely insane and defeats one of the core benefits of using bitcoin for daily transactions.

This is getting insane and is completely uncalled for, or am I wrong?

It's ridiculous, now we're dealing with extremely high fees for every transaction, especially, for deals from web wallets, they default to us for a fee of 0.001 btc ( Almost $ 2.5). This is a really terrible charge.

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Yes it is absolutely ridiculous! Thats why im trying to avoid sending btc too often

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Yes it's absolutely ridiculous my few of low transaction still not confirmed now bitcoin becoming for only big transaction hope soon it will recover otherwise altcoins would be the option

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The number of unconfirmed transactions is rising once again, and is about to touch the 100,000 mark. We need some permanent solutions for this. A fixed transaction fee with no priority for anyone would be good, rather than temporary solutions such as SegWit.

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More than 0.001 for a transaction of one input and two outputs now... Jeez, that's appalling.

Quote from: ThirdGear on June 02, 2017, 07:30:56 PM

A fixed fee would be best and perhaps an express fee if it needs to be done fast.

It may be the best for users, but then miners will only be able to mine a set amount of transactions every 10 minutes, and currently the mempool is filling up faster than miners can pack them into blocks. How will they know what transactions to put into a block if the fees are all the same?

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Quote from: TheCheek on June 02, 2017, 04:54:31 PM

The last 3 txs have taken between 4 hours and 1.5 days, despite paying a high fee.

Maybe it's not high enough.

Quote from: richardsNY on June 02, 2017, 07:30:02 PM

I make use of the Core client, and there already is an option that gives me a rough recommended fee calculation. I personally don't use that option, but look at the recommended fee displayed by https://bitcoinfees.21.co where I add a 10% premium to make miners pick up my transaction.

I notice that with the current version of Core (0.14.1) there is no 1 block estimate anymore. The lowest estimate (fastest) is 2 blocks. If you look at the numbers closely, bitcoinfees.21.co is just slightly higher than what you have on your Core client. Depending on the transaction sometimes I use whatever value is displayed there and add a satoshi to the total, or a satoshi to the fee per byte. The tx will get included quickly either way.

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A fixed fee would be best and perhaps an express fee if it needs to be done fast.

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