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Quote from: mmo_online_1981 on April 15, 2017, 02:09:46 AM

At the present time, buying BTC coffee seems to be too expensive because the transaction fee is too large
I thinks so`1

Yes, it is because of the rise of its value, it is like buying expensive coffee then. Cheesy

To OP, I guess you better convert your bitcoin into fiat and make some transaction using your fiat money so the it will not be that expensive in your part.

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At this point it is clear that we will never be able to purchase a coffee with on-chain transaction.
Whenever we like it or not a second layer network will be developed in the future to prevent overload of the network.
Bitcoin will be used and cornerstone for larger system - but until this happen the idea of buying your coffee with BTC is dead.

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Well, in my country, you can buy a lot of coffee with bitcoin right now. Even you can build your own coffee shop. Here, bitcoin is so valuable, and has a high value when converted into fiat form. But, most people are not yet aware to immediately look for bitcoin, because it lacks interest with it.

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Quote from: Antonio G. on April 13, 2017, 09:58:01 AM

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Quote from: kvlolo on April 11, 2017, 09:17:17 AM

I used to buy a coffee from time to time with bitcoin.
But I can't use bitcoin buying a coffee now, because the fee is so high, if I keep 0.0001 fee like before, it would take days for the transaction to get confirmed, I've got a transaction which took 11 days to get the 1st confirmation last month.
It's not cost-effective any more to buy (I mean both online and buying face to face) thing via bitcoin. And this is why I quit buy coffee with bitcoin.

Well that is true given the current miner fees today it is likely that we will stick to fiat currency in buying anything such as coffee from local shops and merchants due to a very high fees which will make your purchase more costly. This is one of the problem that the community is facing right now and we hope that when a code is accepted in mining the fees should also go down.

Yeah, Bitcoins become useless for small payments if you don't want to pay a lot for the transaction. And looks like transaction fee will grow in the future.. Embarrassed

That would be so sad if that case will going to happen, things will be really different as the timr goes by, we do not know how things work in the future if the transaction fee wi going to affect the consumption of bitcoin.

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At the present time, buying BTC coffee seems to be too expensive because the transaction fee is too large
I thinks so`1

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Quote from: aTriz on April 14, 2017, 11:44:42 AM

Quote from: erickkyut on April 13, 2017, 08:31:54 AM

Oh c'mon dude! Just because of the transaction fees you cannot buy coffee? Even there is an increase in the transaction fees they are still low and will only cost you a few penny. Why blame the transaction fees? It is there to help the wallet provider to survive.

In my opinion, they blame the fees because of a very simple reason- they sent transactions usually, with small amounts of bitcoins in them, so it is very harmful.
When you own 1 bitcoin, and you make 0.02 or even 0.01 transactions, this 30-50k satoshi fee doesnt hurts you like that, an experienced bitcoin user knows many way to decrease the fee, or to regain the money spend on it somehow, without big effort.

I cannot grasp why would anyone think that the bitcoin has been made to pay for the coffee?
Blockchain is a great technology and bitcoin is also revolutionary, and paying for coffee with it seems like a stupid idea for me, you better pay with BTC for some electronical devices, or anything more expensive than 5$ lol.

Since its release the bitcoin has been aiming to become a revolutionary way of payment a way to replace spending money on the internet with having more sense of security and to avoid banking fees or credit cards usage.

But that idea kept fading away as bitcoin kept to grow constantly and people started realizing the fact that utilizing bitcoin as a profitable investment due to its price constantly growing is better than getting it and then spending it like regular money, so they started treating it like gold, and that what makes it hard to people spending it and business owners accepting as a payment method.

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You quit to buy coffee only, but i quit everything to buying with bitcoin. Because when bitcoin was under $500, than sometime i use it for shopping but now bitcoin has a heavy price. So i am prefer to save than use the bitcoin.

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Quote from: erickkyut on April 13, 2017, 08:31:54 AM

Oh c'mon dude! Just because of the transaction fees you cannot buy coffee? Even there is an increase in the transaction fees they are still low and will only cost you a few penny. Why blame the transaction fees? It is there to help the wallet provider to survive.

In my opinion, they blame the fees because of a very simple reason- they sent transactions usually, with small amounts of bitcoins in them, so it is very harmful.
When you own 1 bitcoin, and you make 0.02 or even 0.01 transactions, this 30-50k satoshi fee doesnt hurts you like that, an experienced bitcoin user knows many way to decrease the fee, or to regain the money spend on it somehow, without big effort.

I cannot grasp why would anyone think that the bitcoin has been made to pay for the coffee?
Blockchain is a great technology and bitcoin is also revolutionary, and paying for coffee with it seems like a stupid idea for me, you better pay with BTC for some electronical devices, or anything more expensive than 5$ lol.

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Quote from: BrewMaster on April 11, 2017, 09:46:00 AM

as someone who has never seen a real shop accept bitcoin can you take a photo in the coffee shop that is accepting bitcoin and share it with us?

I like coffee and my dream is to buy coffee using my bitcoin,but it will take years here to realize that,yeah posting that coffee shop photo is a big boost to all of us here I think you are located in the us or in the uk I read that you can buy coffee in Japan using Bitcoin.

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Quote from: kvlolo on April 11, 2017, 09:17:17 AM

I used to buy a coffee from time to time with bitcoin.
But I can't use bitcoin buying a coffee now, because the fee is so high, if I keep 0.0001 fee like before, it would take days for the transaction to get confirmed, I've got a transaction which took 11 days to get the 1st confirmation last month.
It's not cost-effective any more to buy (I mean both online and buying face to face) thing via bitcoin. And this is why I quit buy coffee with bitcoin.

Well maybe you need to raise the fee. That’s the point of the fee. The higher it is the less long it takes to complete the transaction and get the confirmations.

But, buying coffee with Bitcoin isn’t really practical anyway. Unless you make a living with Bitcoin just buy your beverage with your local fiat currency. People are always romanticizing about buying everything in bitcoin but it is actually more convenient for you to just use your government backed currency.

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Quote from: btcbug on April 13, 2017, 10:07:48 AM

Quote from: kvlolo on April 11, 2017, 09:38:50 AM

The point is that other coins like doge or litecoin is much less popular than bitcoin. The coffee shop does not accept doge and litecoin.

And when the coffee shop sees that nobody is paying in BTC anymore, they'll figure out that it's not practical. Additionally when speaking to their customers about it and hearing their desires to pay with crypto currencies, they'll investigate other solutions. LTC with LN perhaps? ETH? DASH?

Consequently those coins proving to be filling the demand will gain in value. See how that works?

Is yet to be seen if LTC can activate segwit. I guess it's a good idea to hold some just in case, but you never know what's inside the mind of a chinese mining whale. We may see it in LTC eventually. We have people like Wang claiming segwit "is a disaster" yet he supports it in LTC. You can't make this shit up.

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Quote from: kvlolo on April 11, 2017, 09:38:50 AM

The point is that other coins like doge or litecoin is much less popular than bitcoin. The coffee shop does not accept doge and litecoin.

And when the coffee shop sees that nobody is paying in BTC anymore, they'll figure out that it's not practical. Additionally when speaking to their customers about it and hearing their desires to pay with crypto currencies, they'll investigate other solutions. LTC with LN perhaps? ETH? DASH?

Consequently those coins proving to be filling the demand will gain in value. See how that works?

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Quote from: Xester on April 13, 2017, 08:40:54 AM

Quote from: kvlolo on April 11, 2017, 09:17:17 AM

I used to buy a coffee from time to time with bitcoin.
But I can't use bitcoin buying a coffee now, because the fee is so high, if I keep 0.0001 fee like before, it would take days for the transaction to get confirmed, I've got a transaction which took 11 days to get the 1st confirmation last month.
It's not cost-effective any more to buy (I mean both online and buying face to face) thing via bitcoin. And this is why I quit buy coffee with bitcoin.

Well that is true given the current miner fees today it is likely that we will stick to fiat currency in buying anything such as coffee from local shops and merchants due to a very high fees which will make your purchase more costly. This is one of the problem that the community is facing right now and we hope that when a code is accepted in mining the fees should also go down.

Yeah, Bitcoins become useless for small payments if you don't want to pay a lot for the transaction. And looks like transaction fee will grow in the future.. Embarrassed

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Quote from: kvlolo on April 11, 2017, 09:17:17 AM

I used to buy a coffee from time to time with bitcoin.
But I can't use bitcoin buying a coffee now, because the fee is so high, if I keep 0.0001 fee like before, it would take days for the transaction to get confirmed, I've got a transaction which took 11 days to get the 1st confirmation last month.
It's not cost-effective any more to buy (I mean both online and buying face to face) thing via bitcoin. And this is why I quit buy coffee with bitcoin.

Well that is true given the current miner fees today it is likely that we will stick to fiat currency in buying anything such as coffee from local shops and merchants due to a very high fees which will make your purchase more costly. This is one of the problem that the community is facing right now and we hope that when a code is accepted in mining the fees should also go down.

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Oh c'mon dude! Just because of the transaction fees you cannot buy coffee? Even there is an increase in the transaction fees they are still low and will only cost you a few penny. Why blame the transaction fees? It is there to help the wallet provider to survive.

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Quote from: thejaytiesto on April 13, 2017, 07:20:01 AM

Quote from: kvlolo on April 11, 2017, 09:17:17 AM

I used to buy a coffee from time to time with bitcoin.
But I can't use bitcoin buying a coffee now, because the fee is so high, if I keep 0.0001 fee like before, it would take days for the transaction to get confirmed, I've got a transaction which took 11 days to get the 1st confirmation last month.
It's not cost-effective any more to buy (I mean both online and buying face to face) thing via bitcoin. And this is why I quit buy coffee with bitcoin.

We need segwit + lightning network in order to cater for mainstream coffee-tier transactions.

So for time being, please use your altcoin of choice for coffee-tier transactions.

true, use altcoin you to conduct transactions coffee or something like that,
or other types of coins if you have

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The cost we pay does not go up, I think, due to the high bitcoin value, which makes the cost we pay for a higher value, however, if we Reduce costs, the transaction will be blocked. This shows that bitcoin is in the stage, it is challenging, need a remedy. If they can overcome this, I believe that will grow stronger than ever. Buying bitcoin coffee at the present time is an unwise idea.

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Quote from: alyssa85 on April 11, 2017, 09:35:17 AM

You can always use other coins like Doge for that kind of stuff. You can use bitwala to pay for stuff in doge, dash, litecoin etc. See

https://www.bitwala.io/card/

https://www.bitwala.io/bitwala-sepa-transfers-with-ether-litecoin-dash/

Good idea for OP. However, why anyone would want to spend their precious crypto on something as consumable as coffee is beyond me. But good luck in doing so if that's your desire.

Because Bitcoin, or any other cryptos, is/are a currency and shall be used as it. It's not a collectible item like stamps. In this case the same could be say with fiat why anyone want to spend their precious money on something as consumable

I have also no idea why would somebody wants to use his bitcoin on to something that could be bought by fiat in the first place, is this a way to impress people and say, "Hey, I have bitcoins folks, who want some?" something like this. It is a waste of profits, really, because instead that we could have a large profit in the long run, we are jut throwing it away for some coffee or whatsoever that we wanted to buy that can be bought by fiat, I mean, yeah, it is worth it, if, we are going to buy the stuffs that we need that can only be bought by bitcoin.

LOL, so the same can be say with fiat. Why are you using fiat for something that could be bought by bitcoin? Is it also a way to imress people and say "Yo, i have fiat folks, who want some?" It can also be a waste of profits as you can also have a profit in the long run.... But don't worry, if you have bills to pay, no matter what currency you have, you will be happy to use it. And if you have no fiat, don't worry you won't say "I have also no idea why would somebody wants to use his bitcoin on to something that could be bought by fiat "

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Quote from: kvlolo on April 11, 2017, 09:17:17 AM

I used to buy a coffee from time to time with bitcoin.
But I can't use bitcoin buying a coffee now, because the fee is so high, if I keep 0.0001 fee like before, it would take days for the transaction to get confirmed, I've got a transaction which took 11 days to get the 1st confirmation last month.
It's not cost-effective any more to buy (I mean both online and buying face to face) thing via bitcoin. And this is why I quit buy coffee with bitcoin.

We need segwit + lightning network in order to cater for mainstream coffee-tier transactions.

So for time being, please use your altcoin of choice for coffee-tier transactions.

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Quote from: Wapinter on April 13, 2017, 06:39:47 AM

Quote from: kvlolo on April 11, 2017, 09:17:17 AM

I used to buy a coffee from time to time with bitcoin.
But I can't use bitcoin buying a coffee now, because the fee is so high, if I keep 0.0001 fee like before, it would take days for the transaction to get confirmed, I've got a transaction which took 11 days to get the 1st confirmation last month.
It's not cost-effective any more to buy (I mean both online and buying face to face) thing via bitcoin. And this is why I quit buy coffee with bitcoin.

If I were you,I wouldn't waste my btc on buying a cup of tea.Who knows this cup of coffee will cost me thousands of dollar in future like the 10,000 btc.
Use bitcoin for bigger transaction or better hold it.

Speaking of the matter, he want to spend his bitcoin as normally as it should be, it's normal, you can't consider it's as a waste whereas bitcoin was first made to be a currency for spending and not for investing.
Probably you're right that in the future we might see that bitcoin would skyrocketing its price but still it's a right thing to use your bitcoin for a cup of coffee.

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