Wow, paid $40 on fees for transaction today 🚀🤩
bitcoin IS digital gold (with commodity use cases we may not agree with), secured deep in a Swiss bunker with guards. Onchain being expensive to move should be expected. Just because we had a time with low demand, shouldn't skewer expectations.
The sooner Onchain low fee enviroment ends, the better. People need incentives to work on actual scaling solutions, LN, Liquid, swaps will work great for now.
Futures bright 🔥


Agree


This is the second most elitist thing I have seen someone say about high fees today.


Why is this elitist?
Why do you think bitcoin Onchain transactions should be cheap? Onchain deliberately has very limited trans per sec.


I don't see the logic of me rejoicing high fees so people work on scaling being elitist 🤷🏼
You want a bitcoin the whole world can access, but you don't want high onchain fees?


Because some of us cant afford to move anything anywhere, nor afford a lightning channel after one was forced closed recently. And tx fees were very affordable til recently so yes thats a good thing. Not all of us can afford this rich mans game bs


I'm not saying it's a rich man's game.


High onchain fees is exactly what makes it inaccessable for most.


Well, when we are in the 300 to 500 range for fees, thats exactly a rich mans game


I'm saying we need to scale so more people can access, and that doesn't happen in low fee enviroment.


but it was clear from the beginning that fees must rise to sustain the network on the long run.


Expect $10000s. Bitcoin can and will be accessed by the world and trans per sec are low Onchain.
I look forward to my grandchildren thinking it amazing I once did an onchain transaction.


And who is going to decide to jump aboard with fees like this? Not low income people. Like I said, it is right now a rich mans game and if you cant see that, then you are a rich man which is fine. But dont act like these fees arent a barrier for us poor folk. I am a poor folk and I am telling you this fee bs has rendered btc 100% useless for me. Cant move shit anywhere. Cant afford to open a lightning channel. So how exacty is this a good environment for us poors?


I spent $71 cad the other day 🤙🏼


Rising is one thing, but when fees take 40% plus of a typical tx us poors can afford, its utterly devaststing.


And you wonder why I think you are coming off as elitist? Yea to hell with us low income people right now. Jesus fucking christ


I think there has been a misunderstanding. I'm saying when bitcoin is working properly, it will be very rare any 1 human makes an onchain transaction for just sending value.


That's the spirit! The current fee craze may subside, but be prepared for high fees as the norm, and be grateful of any low-fee period.

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Yea I dont know what this means at all. Onchain tx fees where they are now is the exact problem that you seem to be saying is a good thing. And they are not. I tried to jump in a 100k sat whirlpool recently. Fees were OVER 100%. And that was with tx fees in the 200 range. And fees are twice that now. I really fail to see how any of this is a good thing.


What was the first?


Similar conversation but this other person told me it was a 'convenient excuse' that I only had one lightning channel (that was force closed) and cant afford to open another right now.


That's hurtful, I agree. Sorry for your loss, force closes now are pretty scary 😔.


Bullshit attack from a weak and dying animal.  BTC is reacting exactly as designed.

Making it expensive to keep doing it while making miners lots of sound money. This is significant.

In the future, this is eliminated on a BTC standard. Can't afford it at all.


Why not use Lightning?


We are at war. You're looking at it all wrong.

This is all impossible on a Bitcoin standard.

Right you shouldnt really be spending or moving anything. And most exchanges already work the fee into their exchange rate price conversion.

And if you waned to buy things, unsure why you'd use BTC - but Lightning Is a really good payments layer.

It's not a rich man's game, it's an involved man's game. If it's too much for you, perhaps that is simply Natural Selection.


I already said multiple times that I recently had a force channel close and because of current fees, opening another is not an option. And a bitcoin standard is not the current reality and is such a utopian pipe dream I cant believe intelligent people think that will ever happen without a ton of bloodshed, so that makes exactly zero difference nor does it change a thing that I have said.


Oh yay miners are getting rich while us poors get fucked in the ass again. Congrats, third most elitist thing I have seen today. Sounding a lot like those who say CPI increases and inflation are good things too.


It wasnt a big loss, just very very inconvient timing


It costs onchain fees to open and I just had a poorly timed force close.


Yep. Well.

Sounds like another one bites the dust then.

Natural Selection, as I said.


It's the wild west.

Stop whining. Take some respect for yourself in sovereignship back and deal with the fact that we are at war.

Your BTC is your ammo and you shouldn't be moving it around left and right anyhow. You Hold the damn thing.

If you can't, and you start blaming BTC for doing exactly what BTC is supposed to do given the criteria - how the hell can anyone respect you?


Wow, you are telling someone who lost literally everything in the past couple years and has a negative net worth for refusing an employer injction mandae to stop whining about not being able to afford miner fees. Must be nice not know struggle. Go. Fuck. Yourself.


I crawled through whatever the fuck you did.

I didn't get injected. I've had 3 jobs since leaving my career.

Don't talk to me about sob stories. I live it every day.

Then come on here and get pissed at BTC for protecting itself AND us as designed against these type of attacks. Then get called on it, then trying to weasel your way out like a dependent whose capitulating and saying i should feel sorry for you.

Grow a pair. This fight isn't for everyone.


I was having a conversation. You came in and start talking shit like you fucking know me. If you knew struggle you wouldnt be acting like a fucking elitist cunt right now.


It sounds like the problem is in you.

Don't project that onto BTC for doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing given the circumstances.


Everyone is an elitist cunt, right? Anyone who has no issue with whatever you have an issue with is an elitist cunt, right?

Whatever dude.

No cope. Learn to swim


When was the last time you spoke this bold to a stranger in person? My guess is exactly never fucking coward.


I was having a fucking conversation. Nobody blaming anything. Heaven fucking forbid I have an option you dont like.


You acting like one.


I woud love nothing more to be having this convo with you irl. Fucking shit talking coward


Maybe stop blaming Christ, BTC, the world.

Pick yourself up and make yourself useful in some way. Might fill up the cavity left by the soul that obviously tapped out on you.

Your profile says you identify as a threat, good. You still have some judgment at least. . .  But i wonder if it is sound enough to realize you're a threat only to yourself from what I can gather in this limited discourse.


Your power projection, or need to project the threat of that kinetic power, shows 100% irrefutably that Bitcoin is not for you.

And mercifully, I wish you luck.


It's true


Can we just get them lower one more time?


Oh yea, not being able to afford tx fees is fucking wonderful. Im so excited to be able to spend so much money to move my money and be left with a small fraction of what I started with. I've been waiting for this moment my entire life.


Wow, paid $40 on fees for transaction today 🚀🤩
bitcoin IS digital gold (with commodity use cases we may not agree with), secured deep in a Swiss bunker with guards. Onchain being expensive to move should be expected. Just because we had a time with low demand, shouldn't skewer expectations.
The sooner Onchain low fee enviroment ends, the better. People need incentives to work on actual scaling solutions, LN, Liquid, swaps will work great for now.
Futures bright 🔥


High fees, custodial care, and OFAC-AML censorship are good things.

lol


Have you heard of lightning or liquid?
Now's a good time to learn.
Next time you'll be prepared


I just had a force close of a lightning channel in the midst of all this for who knows what damn reason. And not willing to eat the cost for another with current fees. Also, neither that nor liquid will resolve my current desire to whirlpool some btc before moving to cold storage.


And please dont assume shit about what I know or if I was or wasnt prepared. Its called I am fucking in financial ruin after being put in a very fucked up situation that lead to me having to live off everything I had saved and seeling off every asset I had at a LOSS to keep food on the table and the lights on and now am barely getting by. Ya'll fuckers just love to sit in judgement and make assumptions about people who are in fucked up situations. This is why I cant fuck 99% of bitcoin people. Bunch of fucking snobs


You weren't prepared

I'm not assuming anything

Let me remind you gently. On chain is for long term savings in larger denominations. LN is for everyday spending.

Don't know who you're trying to fuck... There are no women in bitcoin


Don't use whirlpool in a high fee environment

LN is private enough


What part of wanting to move to cold storage do you not fucking understand? I dont really give a fuck about lightning right now. I need to mix and send to hardware. Which I just fucking said. So save your fucking lectures.


I have an open payment channel, so I have no problem to send L-BTC. But I'm afraid LN Big will shut down my incoming channel. Than I’m in throuble.


Look, I am truly happy for you and everyone else who can weather this current evironment. But some people are not in a good place finacially, and some of us are in that position through no fault of our own. Try losing a very good career over a injection mandate and not being able to do what you have done for two decades because the entire semiconductor industry is jab happy and having to resort to a fucking part time dishwasher job to barely pay the bills. So next time you want to talk down to someone, maybe take a step back and know the whole story.


When putting onchain UTXO's into cold storage you need to lower your time preferance. Why are they going into cold storage? Because they won't be spent for a long time. So give it some time.

Now you know that you need larger UTXO's after your force close, wait till you get fees that you think are reasonable to send into whirlpool.

With a bit of wizardry in LN and you don't really need to coinjoin. But now might not be the best time to be opening channels.

BTW I worked as a dishwasher for years. Put on bitcoin podcasts or audiobooks so you can learn at the same time (which offsets the low pay).


Do you really think I dont know all this? Im annoyed with fees, not lacking knowledge.