Bitcoin Fees Sink to 6 Month Low, Undermining Bitcoin Cash
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Bitcoin Fees Sink to 6 Month Low, Undermining Bitcoin Cash

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Data from ecology assets Wednesday confirms the turnaround as BTC continues to see a bead in transaction fees not apparent for six months.

In agreement of satoshis, the cryptocurrency’s aboriginal accessible unit, BCH’s lower amount agency a transaction fee of 10,000 sat provides worse amount than an agnate 10,000 sat fee beatific in BTC.

The bead additionally marks a 97% abatement to about $0.79 cents from the aiguille of $34 in USD terms.

Bitcoin Cash proponents accept continued accustomed low transaction fees as one of the two above ‘advantages’ the adamantine angle has over the aboriginal Bitcoin network. Together with faster transaction times and greater arrangement capacity, Bitcoin Cash was advised to accommodate currency-focused casework in Bitcoin bigger than Bitcoin itself could manage.

During an continued publicity advance for the altcoin, acclaimed adherent Roger Ver explained these allowances to assorted boilerplate media publications, anecdotic Bitcoin abnormally as “Bitcoin SegWit” and alike a “cripple coin.”

“If you accept two versions of Bitcoin, one is slow, big-ticket and capricious (Bitcoin SegWit) and you accept addition adaptation of Bitcoin which is cool fast, reliable and cheap, it’s not a boxy decision,” he told the Rubin Report in December.

This ages saw a added claiming to his words, with SegWit accepting full support in the latest Bitcoin Core applicant absolution – giving the Bitcoin arrangement faster affairs and added capacity. Major exchanges Coinbase and Bitfinex are additionally antagonism to abutment the technology.

Bitcoin Lightning Network Is Coming: Test a Transaction Now

At the aforementioned time, the Lightning Network has fabricated ample assets in acceptance back its own absolution beneath than two months ago, accouterment an ‘off-chain’ ascent band-aid which could reduce the boilerplate transaction fee and delay time to around zero.

Last week, computer behemothic Microsoft about came out in favor of Lightning, anecdotic ‘on-chain’ ascent represented by entities including Bitcoin Cash as “degrading decentralization.”

As of columnist time, the Lightning Network hosted 806 nodes – aloof 350 beneath than the Bitcoin Cash network’s 1053 nodes.

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