If you go out with pick and shovel and dig for gold and find some, what do you do with it? You trade it in for cash, or you keep it and dig for more.
What did you get for your gold when you sold it? Cash, right?
Lots of people have prospected for gold and never found any. They weren't forced into it. They simply thought that they could make it. But they didn't. They lost their investment.
Those who found gold and traded it in for cash, did they get a miner's fee? Or did they simply trade the gold in for cash?
The Bitcoin miner's fee is BS. If you get your rigs together and mine for Bitcoin, you either find some or you don't. If you don't, you sell your rigs, take the loss, and get out of it. If you find some, you either hodl it or you sell it at the going rate. If you sell, your earnings are the fiat (etc.) that you get for it. Period.
If all the miners hodl, because there is no miner's fee to tempt them to sell, the price of Bitcoin goes down, because nobody else has bitcoins, and who would want some of it if it can't be used because so few people have it? So, some of the miners sell, just to get back some of the money they put into their operation.
Miner's fees are simply a thing to screw up the Bitcoin system like derivatives screw up the fiat money Ponzi. They aren't needed. They are messing everything up. They are giving miners an opportunity to control the whole show in a funny way that doesn't have anything to do with making Bitcoin into a currency.
Let the thing be simple. For the simple person who uses Bitcoin, the miner's fees are a method to tax people on using bitcoin, and that is it. Why tax it, when the miners get cash for the bitcoins they sell just like gold prospectors get cash for the gold they sell. They already have their money.
Miner's fees are BS.
