There must be a way to organize “branches” of smaller activity to join main 
tree after they grow. Outsider a bit, I see going circles here, but not 
everything must be accepted in the chain. Good idea as it is, it’s just too 
early to record every sight….



> On Mar 30, 2017, at 5:52 PM, Jared Lee Richardson via bitcoin-dev 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Further, we are very far from the point (in my appraisal) where fees are 
> > high enough to block home users from using the network.
> 
> This depends entirely on the usecase entirely.  Most likely even without a 
> blocksize increase, home purchases will be large enough to fit on the 
> blocksize in the forseeable future.  Microtransactions(<$0.25) on the other 
> hand aren't viable no matter what we try to do - There's just too much data.
> 
> Most likely, transaction fees above $1 per tx will become unappealing for 
> many consumers, and above $10 is likely to be niche-level.  It is hard to say 
> with any certainty, but average credit card fees give us some indications to 
> work with - $1.2 on a $30 transaction, though paid by the business and not 
> the consumer.
> 
> Without blocksize increases, fees higher than $1/tx are basically inevitable, 
> most likely before 2020.  Running a node only costs $10/month if that.  If we 
> were going to favor node operational costs that highly in the weighting, we'd 
> better have a pretty solid justification with mathematical models or examples.
> 
> > We should not throw away the core innovation of monetary sovereignty in 
> > pursuit of supporting 0.1% of the world's daily transactions.
> 
> If we can easily have both, why not have both?
> 
> An altcoin with both will take Bitcoin's monetary sovereignty crown by 
> default.  No crown, no usecases, no Bitcoin.
> 
> 

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