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 Can someone explain why @strike fees to move funds into cold storage are so high? https://image.nostr.build/26532757b8f4ba565d8fcf5976bffce7a674a4d14a404ab3f78d7e96e9036ace.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d5794a5c11d7194c5af90ef934783b758a5f55654db257bcdc8e892885eba47d.jpg  
 *sings* because they
want to 
keep you
off chain
and on
their 
shitty netwooooorksss 
 Aside from that…is there a technical reason? 

How much is the network fee and how much goes to strike? 
 Bitcoin Core (BTC) is 'smaller' blocks at around ~4mb with Segregated Witness. Thus there is a limited amount of on-chain txn's that can be added to a block. You then sort of 'bid' for a spot to confirm your transaction, higher fees creating some sort of favoured priority.

You could do your own calculations by looking at the mempool data, cost per byte, then backwork it and see the difference. That difference would be their margin. Better yet, just read their fine print - somewhere it'll say what % they add on top of on-chain txns.

Also; factor in traditional fees to transfer the money. If traditional fees are ~$75 and you're paying $44 then there's a deal there, but IDK your cirumstance. 
 I looked at the tx data in Sparrow. The fee paid to the miner was 6k sats (~13 sats/vB). So if i elected to pay 50k sats for their fee they are making a nice margin. 

@CashApp fees are more in alignment with tx fees you would expect when looking at the mempool. 
 Sheesh those look rather silly! 
 Why don’t you pick the free option? Most exchanges that don’t charge a fee are as slow also 
 Also I doubt it’ll take 24 hours but not sure 
 I will need to try the free option and see how long it actually takes 
 I’m not opposed to paying a fee. It just seems high compared to others. I just did a similar transaction from Cash App and the fee was literally 0.1x