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Topic: The average joe would never accept bitcoin as means of payment due to tx fees - page 8. (Read 1485 times)

legendary
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I believe that transaction fees and losing your wallet or getting hacked and not receiving any reimbursement is a serious archilies heel preventing mass adoption for bitcoin.

In many poor countries people use cash as means of payment and no extra fees is levied. If each and every single transaction is levied fees, then people wont spend as much as they spend with cash. I mean if you even transfer from one wallet to another you are leived fees. 

The so called lightning network defense is not prudent as in lightning network the sellers ids is being broadcasted to everyone.

bitcoin will only be like gold aka store of value.

Have you used Bitcoin though?

Transaction fees are very cheap right now, as compare to previous years, Segwit might be one reason why the fees are getting cheaper.

I guess you have to look at LN here; https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/a-beginners-guideline-to-bitcoin-lightning-network-5202798 and https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-lightning-network-faq-5158920.
legendary
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The average joe would  never accept bitcoin as means of payment due to tx fees

Tell that to El Salvador citizens that use bitcoin as legal tender for everyday paymants by crypto wallet with build in lightining network.

I believe that transaction fees and losing your wallet or getting hacked and not receiving any reimbursement

Tell me how big reimbursement you will get after loosing your wallet full of paper cash. Or how big reimbursement average joe would get after his bank account hack.
hero member
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In my opinion you are right with that. There is the need for a consumer friendly option to send small amounts without TX fees and also with a very low verification time (10 seconds maximum). If that does not happen then there is no way bitcoin is used daily. In my option the fact that you have to wait 30-40 min for verification is even more important than the fees.
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I believe that transaction fees and losing your wallet or getting hacked and not receiving any reimbursement is a serious achilles heel preventing mass adoption for bitcoin.

In many poor countries people use cash as means of payment and no extra fees is levied. If each and every single transaction is levied fees, then people wont spend as much as they spend with cash. I mean if you even transfer from one wallet to another you are levied fees.  

The so called lightning network defense is not prudent as in lightning network the sellers i.p ids is being broadcasted to everyone.

bitcoin will only be like gold aka store of value.
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