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October 04, 2016, 10:08:31 PM

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The actual fees attached to bitcoin are all connected to the legacy and centralized systems (fiat conversions, exchanges, etc).

If you do enough transactions, fees become an issue:

https://youtu.be/1-z-zTBHOO8?t=14m14s

23$ and 50$ fees per tx? What is he talking about?

Come on, let's get serious.

Last block was

https://blockchain.info/block/00000000000000000028070c4eff21147cc6efbd656498cc0ecd12c892f32bac

Number Of Transactions   2665
Output Total   9,069.87804225 BTC
Estimated Transaction Volume   1,363.92519973 BTC
Transaction Fees   0.62605074 BTC

381$ were paid for 2665 txs, for an estimated transaction value of 832k USD.