Complaints from Bitcoin Users

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Why not let the market sort out the tx fees they are willing to pay,

"the miners sort out the txs and block sizes they are willing to mine, have a large enough technical cap (like it use to be) and let the emergent consensus dictate the valid chain?" - LovelyDay

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i was sending 0,27 BTC, and because i had no hurry i hit the "send without fees if possible" checkbox in the bitcoin-qr client.

"i also activated the "smallest fee possible" option. now my transaction is 16 days old and still not confirmed. Is it stuck in Limbo /faulty, or are several weeks normal if you send it with less then the usual amount of fees?" - fuzzydice_82

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Complaints from users, Day 21 (06/07/2016):

I'm an IT Director at my day job and can confirm the core devs are making decisions on something they aren't that knowledgeable about.

"The people screaming to increase the blocks are more business and IT hardware/network infra savvy." - pazdan

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Blockstream Inc has based their business model on keeping the block size tiny. The better part of the Core developers are also on their payroll....

"Blockstream also took a huge amount of money from established financial companies because they have a common goal: both want to keep the block size tiny to prevent Bitcoin itself from mass adoption." - coin-master

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Keeping the blocksize-limit for the coming months because it was married with an unrelated change is very unprofessional.

"I've made enough warnings. In the coming months we will see proof of stunted growth, fees going up exponentially and/or huge delays. Probably some combination of all three." - seweso

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Our site has been accepting bets using unconfirmed transactions since April 2013. In that time we've processed well over 1 million transactions, and sent out over 400000 payouts.

"We have to stay on top of new threats, including those introduced by core developers." - bitzillions

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Bitcoin as a payment system has become too expensive for me.

"Coincidentally transaction cost for buying food online went down (fiat), while Bitcoin became more expensive. It just doesn't make economic sense to use Bitcoin anymore. Anything above $0.05 is too high for my taste." - seweso

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Complaints from users, Day 22 (07/07/2016):

How many of you are holding back buying more Bitcoin because of the block size issue?

"Since I am personally quite hesitant right now to buy more Bitcoin because of the block size issue, I was wondering how many others are waiting to buy more because of this reason?" - Neill_889

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I've bought alts

"purely because of this issue." - DIGITAL-not-Virtual

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I sold everything after this blocksize issue failed to resolve for more than a year.

"If blocks get a decent expansion plan (like Bitcoin Unlimited), I'm all in again." - goocy

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Idiot kore dev talks about settlement layer but won't allow bitcoin to become a unit of account

"(the third property of real money)." - cypherdoc2

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I will buy again

"when blocks will be larger." - paoloaga

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If Core stepped down

"my faith would be restored and I would start buying again." - akuukka

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The #1 rule in my personal investment decisions, which has never done me wrong before, is to invest in things with excellent leaders.

"Bitcoin Core fails miserably on that front. Possibly some of the worst leaders I've ever seen in my entire life." - scotty321

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I never would have sold a bitcent, but when the miners didn't switch to.classic, I hedged in alts, gold, and worst of all, usd.

"Normally I would have been buying with about 40% of my paycheck every month, but not until these tyrants are ousted. Fuck you, blockstream." - LogicSalad

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I sold all mine a while back because of it.

"Not just the block size, but all the underlying problems that the issue reveals." - TheAethereal

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I'm certainly not doing any purchase actions using bitcoin, I've switched back to traditional methods.

"Since Bitcoin is crippled (as far as payments go), I'm not investing in The Cripple, either." - BTCisGod

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I'm a relative newbie and slowly buying Bitcoin but these issues put me off a little.

"I don't want to start moving to Bitcoin to have fees keep increasing and increasing." - twizzlebizzle21

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Since the debate escalated

"I'm hedging until this is resolved." - LovelyDay

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I stopped buying quite some time ago.

"Core is in charge of warping reality these days, Bitcoin is going sideways forever." - gold_rehypothecation

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I am waiting.

"My expectation (guess really) is that should the Chinese miners get ultimately impatient with Core not providing the promised 2mb block increase then they could go their own way with Classic or potentially a different implementation." - MrSuperInteresting

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I hedged 1/3 because of this

"and don't plan to buy anymore." - gr8ful4

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I have been to 3/4 hedging,

"I would never thought about that a year ago." - Ant-n

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Bitcoin has reached capacity and it doesn't look like the issue will be resolved any time soon,

"and the price reflects that." - forstuvning

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Just to add a voice for better polling, I too have diversified into a good few altcoins, some I believe in for the future and others to game the volatility of this emerging market.

"Ultimately I wouldn't have hedged so effectively if not for Core's misgivings, but it'd be a safe wager that I'd be much richer in Bitcoin by now had they not played Game of Thrones with a fledgling economy." - Mbizzle135

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I stopped my regular buying late last year and started to hedge more and more as blockstream's clear divergence from Satoshi's stated vision and goals continued on unchecked.

"I was 98% in btc until then." - tailsta

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I no longer do any development with bitcoin based systems because I see it as a stagnant software stilted by political infighting.

"R3 and the big banks basically bought out the "core", and seem to have succesfully halted meaningful development on the protocol. I'm working with other crytpocurrency systems now." - tonks101

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It seems difficult for normal businesses

"to justify spending resources on Bitcoin in its current state." - BTCisGod

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I used to buy small increments maybe $20 at a time, it's all I could do.

"I stopped though cause this block size stuff is crazy. Once it's resolved and we can finally put this thing to rest I will start up again." - blockologist

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Last trade - waited 4-1/2 hrs for first confirmation

"even with 'normal' tx fee set." - cascadian67