I knew it was coming, and it's finally here. SegWit.
I made a transaction earlier today, it took about 20 minutes to be confirmed, and the fee was a ridiculous (compared to what they were a few weeks ago) 0.000012 BTC. Just a little more than a dime.
I'm really happy to share such good news. Enjoy!
FYI there's no point in blacking out the transaction hash because you showed the inputs and outputs (along with fee, size and locktime when the transaction was created). i'd remove the screenshot if i were you, but to each his own.
the core fee estimator is good enough proof for me. i've been getting transactions confirmed at 1 satoshi/byte---cheaper than default fees were before all this block size drama set off. if anyone is still using earn.com, use this instead:
https://twitter.com/corefeehelper?lang=enSegwit usage is still low. It is more likely that transaction volume has dropped because the crash scared a lot of people away.
yeah, i don't think this has to do with segwit. there's probably drastically lower activity from exchanges now. ETH fees have dropped to 1 gwei (40-50x decrease from the peak), so it's not just BTC. and google trends seems to agree.