Maybe when you transfer the account, the block is more congested. This is also where bitcoin is needed to improve. Sometimes it takes a long time to extract bitcoins. I once extracted bitcoins to my wallet on the exchange, and spent a whole day in debt, which led to a missed investment opportunity.

Bitcoin is good for HODL right now but nothing else. Transaction fees are insane for any regular joe like you and I. If you can stick to alts like Litecoin for that kind of stuff because transaction fees are much lower and they can still be valuable.

Similar situation to my experience but it was a relative in my case and he had a mining rig in his room that he showed me and then I became interested after seeing how he makes money by not lifting a finger.

Like it or not I think it is hard for a token such as Bitcoin to be worth $10k+ and have low transaction fees. I also do not think this is a problem as there are off-chain scaling solutions being worked on and there are lots of other cryptocurrencies one can use at many places. You also have the option of paying a bit higher fees, as still paying $5-$10 to transfer $10k someplace almost instantly isn't that bad. Try using Western Union, your bank, or Paypal to transfer large sums and you will be socked a lot more in fees.

As far as those $5.00 coffee purchases, learn to use cash or keep you bank card or phone bank app handy. I don't think Bitcoin is going to replace those services anytime real soon for the small everyday purchases. Too many people think it needs to be an all or nothing solution implemented right now. The current banking system took years and years to get where it is at, while Bitcoin has only been around for less than 10 years. Give it some time to grow and develop and if you dislike it so much you can always stick to the traditional banking system.

What are you talking about? I never said anything about it being hard for bitcoin to be worth over $10k, I said it is hard to have it be worth that much and at the same time expect the fees to stay low. Moving $10k in any other system will cost you probably $50 in fees, so even paying $5 to make the transaction move faster (which the OP was talking about) is still not a bad deal.

No one uses bitcoin to make transfers now, ETH is already much faster and cheaper

How much did you sent and how much you paid for the fee? Before transactions are instant but because of the growing community of bitcoin and there are too many people that are transacting and it cause the network to traffic so miners need to do something about it on whoever will pay the highest pay will be put in their priority queue. While those low fees will still confirmed but don't expect it will be early.

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Yes, and the main problem is the fees and the delayed time of transactions, you should put enough fees to get your transactions confirmed very quick, unless you should use ETH, because you can pay less fees and also the transactions is immeditaly confirmed.