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Topic: Should bitcoin lower the transaction fee? - page 3. (Read 6366 times)

legendary
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August 16, 2012, 06:45:39 PM
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The wording of your question implies it hasn't already been done.  The fee was lowered to its current value when Bitcoin exceeded $20 USD per BTC.   At this point there is no reason to lower the fee further.  Maybe when 1 BTC = $100 then cutting the minimum fee by 80% would make it equivalent to the prior cut.

Still the min fee is likely going to be less and less important in the future.  I already pay about 5x the min fee (still a fraction of a cent).  The min fee doubling or being cut in half wouldn't change anything for me.

I know the transaction fee has changed before.  Transaction fees will be very important towards miners fee's in the future.
donator
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Gerald Davis
August 16, 2012, 06:43:40 PM
#2
The wording of your question implies it hasn't already been done.  The fee was lowered to its current value when Bitcoin exceeded $20 USD per BTC.   At this point there is no reason to lower the fee further.  Maybe when 1 BTC = $100 then cutting the minimum fee by 80% would make it equivalent to the prior cut.

Still the min fee is likely going to be less and less important in the future.  I already pay about 5x the min fee (still a fraction of a cent).  The min fee doubling or being cut in half wouldn't change anything for me.
legendary
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August 16, 2012, 06:39:52 PM
#1
Should bitcoin lower the transaction fee  Huh

*edit: transaction fee's will be important to miners in the future and it could help condense the bloating blockchain size by having a "high" transaction fee.  But standard wallets like the default wallet-qt and blockchain.info/mywallet require a transaction fee before sending coin unless it's a larger amount of coin sent after a longer amount of in wallet idle of time.  So miners incomes and blockchain size vrs free(cheap) open micro-transactions which could help fuel adoption and growth.
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