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May 21, 2017, 03:16:48 PM

Fees are getting stupid. Just paid about 5 bucks for a transfer, as suggested by my wallet.

Wallet software fail probably. First block inclusion is at around 1.2$ right now.


https://bitcoinfees.21.co/

The fastest and cheapest transaction fee is currently 270 satoshis/byte, shown in green at the top.
For the median transaction size of 226 bytes, this results in a fee of 61,020 satoshis.

Nope. Like I said, got another transfer with a buck attached that has been stuck for days. I assume that different wallets connect to different pools to maybe that could make a difference, but nonetheless this is the current reality.

It was probably oversized tx in terms of bytes (like 2-3 inputs) so the fee per byte was lower (hence lower priority).
True.  It's not much to do with what fees you pay in total but what fees you pay per byte.

Still, it's not like everyone can expect to be paying the same amount they receive all the time.  Imagine a future reality in which you can choose to deal in Bitcoin for most things - what would happen to people like convenience store merchants who accept a lot of small payments?  They'd have to exchange their Bitcoin to fiat all the time.