Complaints from Bitcoin Users

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lower fees, but still no return of free transactions?

"core recently removed support for free transactions even though satoshi stated [1] clearly that free transactions should always be allowed.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic ... 8#msg12168" - nofollow

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The lightning network is a pathetic scheme to suppress the liberties the original vision of Bitcoin provides.

"Blockstream is a corrupt company which does not refrain from spreading lies and propaganda to further their agenda." - wellthissukz

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If LN is such a great innovation people will choose to use it when it and all the required infrastructure finally become available.

"They shouldn't be forced into it by come central body." - chinawat

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There are a great number of flaws and drawbacks in LN, but to have an open discussion about it inevitably means that a blocksize increase is the only option and their silver bullet "sollution to the scaling problem" gets shelved.

"This is why they are so defensive and prickish about anyone that dares question LN." - ferretinjapan

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Joseph Poon and LN fans keep describing the LN as if it was a real working solution to the scaling problem, ignoring all the flaws that have been pointed out to them.

"I am still waiting for at least a napkin sketch of the LN sytem, with numbers, that would at least vaguely look like it might possibly almost work." - jstolfi

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I'm trying to send 17 BTC from my blockchain.info account to another address.

"Blockchain.info is choosing the transaction fee of
0.00946617 BTC for this transaction, which is $6 USD approx.

Is this fee normal?

Is there a way to edit the fee to a smaller one like $1 or $0.5 for example?" - CoinTrade

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Complaints from users, Day 30 (15/07/2016):

"For the median transaction size of 258 bytes, this results in a fee of 23,220 satoshis (0.15$)."

"fees like those are completely moronic and are harming Bitcoin !" - realistbtc

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"Bitcoin has not yet become the best (most wanted) money in the world"

"High tx fees are stunting adoption and makes it possible that bitcoin will lose to an altcoin." - SeriousSquash

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Or the absolute flood of new users might go straight to an altcoin instead, bypassing Bitcoin.

"Bitcoin can't increase its block size at the drop of a hat, it takes time to coordinate a hard fork. Especially if the main developers continue to move heaven and Earth trying to obstruct it." - FaceDeer

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I hear over and over that Bitcoin is for the unbanked,

"but how do you explain them that in order to use it will have to pay fees equals to their daily meals?!!!" - Bitcoin_forever

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I live in Hanoi. I've been making on chain transactions few times a week for about a year, mostly as broker with a few purchases here and there. $0,15 is about 3300đ; that's the same as what average people spend for breakfast.

"For me, over past 6 months the miner fee has gone up 10 folds. Last year, I used to manual set the fee when I create transactions to get the lowest fee possible and still get in the next block. Now I have given up on that and let the wallet calculate the fee. Even with that I still have a few delayed confirms ranging from hour to days. Lately my fee per transaction is in the 2000-4000 vnd range. So that're some numbers for you." - thaolx

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15c is way too much.

"1-3c should be a maximum for low priority transaction." - bitdoggy

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If bitcoin is kept small, then others will grow and take over.

"The market will decide." - dietrolldietroll

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That's a good point. When a new cryptocurrency is developed which fits the majority of the world's population (For which the BTC transaction fees are too high), we'll finally have a true currency which does what BTC was supposed to do all alon

"BTC will be outperformed AND undercut at the same time, then fuck it, it just won't be competitive anymore, will it?" - fasterfind

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Core is corrupt. I recognize corruption when I see it.

"You either act in the best interest of Bitcoin; high scalability and availability for all users, or you don't. I'm surprised the shenanigans have lasted this long. They have no power, just realize that." - loveforyouandme

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I paid $.63 usd fee (mycelium high priority) about a week before the halving.

"Imo thats too damn high. " - BlockchainMaster

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2 hours no confirms

"You guys think 13cents usd for 1 simple transaction should take 2 hrs to confirm? sent from blockchain.info hmmm https://blockchain.info/tx/be3975608872 ... 5fd63ed78a" - vroomDotClub

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transaction id=57dce545b7010e136fc744659c648324bc2e28f53852d2f72c6874efb520fb93
unconfirmed since 14.07.2016
on https://blockchain.info/search/57dce545 ... efb520fb93 answer is:Transaction rejected by our node. Reason: Non-canonical signature: High S Value
Transaction made with Bitcoin Core 0.12.1

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Complaints from users, Day 31, 32 & 33 (18/07/2016):

we don't charge any additional fees.

"Fees are just unusually high right now due to network congestion." - Samuel Sutch, CTO @breadwalletapp

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Creating powerpoints to explain to their investors why they have no revenue and don't expect to for 2, 5, 7, 10 years....

"Blockstream doesn't strike me as a viable entity and backers probably are starting to get nervous. In all sincerity, how long until bankruptcy?" - genericcommonwords

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Well, kore sure treats other devs as enemies.

"The only ones I've heard threatening lawsuits against other implementation devs is Adam and Greg et al." - cypherdoc2

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Moderation Logs for /r/BTC clearly disprove /r/Bitcoin's claims that there is censorship here.

"https://i.redd.it/57gm7mlfhp9x.png" - MemoryDealers

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yep.

"/r/bitcoin is fucking disgusting." - juxtapozz

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Because people who are absolutely known r/bitcoin trolls, who literally only come here to stir up shit are for no apparent reason and are usually (rightly) severely downvoted, are being upvoted to +20 and higher.

"They are trying to get the policy here changed so they can continue to manipulate the dialogue here. It happened on r/bitcoin and it will happen here if people aren't careful. On r/bitcoin they had it easy because they either had support of theymos or they are working for theymos.

Here they are forced to come up with more inventive tactics, like what they are doing in this thread, to allow their manipulation to work." - singularity87

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No one who controls an influential forum or website should call it his own home and just care about his very own interests.

"With ownership comes responsibility. If the masses made you big, you also have to respect them, but with censorship you abuse your power. That's why I also think that corporations, for example, not only should think of their own goals and nothing else but the society that gave them the conditions to grow as well.

Besides, I think this king's behavior is pretty self-destructive and terrible for Bitcoin." - earthmoonsun

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Exactly.

"Especially when the censorship came only after we all made it popular only to turn around and Institute a radically new policy of small block proponency out of the blue. " - cypherdoc2

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Anti-competition is anti-liberty and anti-Bitcoin

"Anyone who opposes fair competition among developers is hostile to Bitcoin and should be treated as an enemy." - tsontar

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Totally agree, competition is good,

"It is not threat.

See the compact/Xthin block event,

Without competition block propagation will always have stayed "low priority" now within month of Xthin being deployed in BU: Core reply with compact block.

Competition is good!" - Ant-n

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Genuine question about scaling not showing in r/bitcoin

"-- why!?" - justfathi

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r/bitcoin doesn't want those type of questions.

"You would be wise to ask yourself further as to why." - BiggerBlocksPlease