Complaints from Bitcoin Users

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It is when your the one making that transaction and going wow bitcoin was supposed to be fast and cheap.

"I could do this other ways much cheaper." - FUBAR-BDHR

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If we want people around the world to start using bitcoin instead of something else, Bitcoin needs to be significantly better. That means, cheaper, faster, safer, and easier than the competition.

"With the artificial block size limit, Bitcoin is losing ground in the cheaper, faster, safer aspects. Transactions are starting to cost more, take longer to confirm, and have a much longer double spend window than they did previously. We need to do everything we can to make Bitcoin as useful as we possibly can. Artificially limiting the transactional throughout does the exact opposite of what we are trying to accomplish." - MemoryDealers

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With fees over a couple of cents

"I will just use credit card since I pay no fee and actually get cash for doing it." - FUBAR-BDHR

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Won't this become more and more of a problem as bitcoins become more and more fragmented and as transaction fees rise

"In theory all bitcoins should be worth the same but in practice if bitcoins you receive are very fragmented and costly to spend they would be undesirable compared to a contiguous chunk. " - MaunaLoona

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I don't like high fees either. I want it to be cheap and accessible.

"An expensive Bitcoin is a bad Bitcoin." - pb1x

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Please remind me again why I should use Bitcoin, when any national or SEPA transfer have a Zero fee?

"(Yes I pay little more then 30$ each year for ALL of my banking)" - nikize

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at $1 a transaction I probably will find some other route for my $10 or less transaction

"-- and thus won't use Bitcoin for that." - cointastical

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the stupidity of people is unbelievable when they talk about fixing it with higher fees.

"Keep an eye out for the next coin or even current alts that might be adopted by established companys, for consider companys like bitpay how can they even operate with bitcoin once blocks are full and fees are high? it simply doesnt fit they will have to adopt alternatives." - Fount4inhead

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Making the user experience superior is what pulls Bitcoin out of the niche and into the mainstream.

"Limiting the block size harms the user experience." - Erik Voorhees

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I hope that you at least kept some bitcoin.

"Sad to see you go," - BitcoinXio

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If you think DAO was fun,

"just wait until Bob tries to send Sally bitcoin over the Lighting Network!" - Bitcoin-1

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pay first spend later model has been replaced by spend first pay later model already 20 years ago, no one will use LN,

"LN is a waste of time. The only possible place it can go is between institutions, but institutions have much better solutions than LN" - vattenj

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This is the thing about Blockstream I hate the most now.

"Bitcoin was great due to its simplicity. A pure currency blockchain without any additional crap. I believe we need to build on-chain scaling solutions to maximize Bitcoin's functionality, but not at the expense of Bitcoin's hardness. Blockstream is trying to turn this into a very complex private payment solution, and having seen plenty of examples of how the current Bitcoin devs have been completely reckless and trying to push out half-baked code to further their own private agendas, it does not bode well for the future.

We need higher functioning solutions on top of the hard currencies, not trying to turn those hard currencies into Visa. Just all the more proof that Blockstream really doesn't have a fucking clue. " - reven_x

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Going to be a nightmare.

"Then let the regulators get involved regulating Lightning hubs with KYC/AML. Then you use some shady illegal hub, and the hub gets raided and you lose all your coins. Great fun." - Pool30

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yes,

"i will never use LN or SC's." - cypherdoc2

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This is why they will prevent any blocksize increase..

"They want LN to be the only way to use bitcoin." - Ant-n

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Because of the blocksize limit and network congestion,

"Steam/bitpay doesn't take 0-conf. Thank you Core!" - P2XTPool

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They are delusional and being extremely unfair.

"I'm a music producer and have a client (a semi well known artist actually) who had a balance with me for a few ongoing projects. Client requested about $700 refunded because their budget for a song changed, hence now I owed them. No problem - happens all the time. I keep all my bitcoin offline but keep around 2 BTC on my phone in Breadwallet. Love Breadwallet. The problem is I sent 1BTC and it didn't confirm for half a day. Extremely irritating and embarrassing for me (Breadwallet doesn't let you set a fee). So I had to jump onto a machine that has Electrum (luckily I keep a few btc in that particular wallet), sent another BTC and set the fee ridiculously high. Then the following day I walked the client (who's not only new to Bitcoin, but had installed Electrum on my suggestion last month while we were shooting the shit after a session) through sending the original Bitcoin back and gave a very very brief explanation about fees, congestion and the the current situation.

Obviously this isn't Breadwallets fault. And the clients s chills guy who's tech savvy enough, but even he made an astute observation.

Doesn't matter if it's an unknown person or a celebrity or soccer mom - Bitcoin has gotten back in the spotlight and people from all walks of life are at least getting interested now.

For the love of God, please set your egoes aside core devs. Zoom out and think about bitcoin being successful in the mainstream. You see that ever happening at this rate? " - JasonBored

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it's not an ego thing,

"they took a massive payoff from banks." - capistor

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BS-Core hard at work suffocating Bitcoin's network effect.

"Patient showing a blue tinge now." - solex1

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I've had lunch for 8 cents in developing countries, 8 cents and up isn't low fees for everyone,

"for some people it's like a few bucks" - outofofficeagain

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Just paid for a game on Steam. Used Copay wallet with "Normal" fee setting.

"It set the fee at 0.00010698 BTC (about 0.08 USD). Did NOT have to wait for confirmation, instantly got my game and I am already downloading it. Transaction is still unconfirmed.

TXID: c67c7e572fea83a80b890aae51cdf3ca16d4adabf3fa2a36e0668a747d929215" - shadowrun456

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Hundreds of Millions of Dollars’ Worth of Bitcoin Stuck for Days

"http://cointelegraph.com/news/hundreds- ... k-for-days" - blockologist

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I have a 50 BTC transaction

"stuck since the 16th." - 11ty

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My transaction is stuck

"unconfirmed for 3 days now." - dobroezlo

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Complaints from users, Day 7 (21/06/2016):

unfortunately btc have been hijack by a corporation that refuse to let it scale

"which makes btc pretty useless." - knight222

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I am more sure than ever that there will NOT be a Core 2MB+ HF implementation released to the general public before this happens, and if anyone wants to see a HF within some definable timeframe (a.k.a. "the foreseeable future"), they might have to look elsewhere, such as to clients which support 2MB blocks today:

"https://bitcoinclassic.com/

http://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/

https://bitcoinxt.software/" - ftrader

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I signed up for Gyft recently to try it out. I see they use Bitpay as their processor.

"Waiting for payment confirmation. Please try again later" WTH?" - blockologist

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With full blocks a transaction might never get confirmed.

"Such is the state of Bitcoin compared to when Bitpay started up." - MrSuperInteresting

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Yeah I'm literally waiting in the store for a fucking confirmation.

"This is insane!" - blockologist