Since when bitcoin is not free? It has been free to use and will remain free to use, just there is this fee while we could mine blocks and never pay that fee, this was the idea behind bitcoin, but when mining became industrialized everything changed.
Yes garbage processing blockchains like ETH and some others are charging you gas and other stuff if you want to use them, some even have a different token to be used as the fee for the service.

Also, what else could be considered pay to use blockchain other than crypto related currencies?

So this is the summary of the article.


Bitcoin on-chain might not be friendly in terms of fees if we use it regularly, but we have lightning network to reduce the fees, the thing is not many people willing to pay using Bitcoin. Bitcoin may not reach mass adoption through usage as currency, but there's a high chance through as commodity.

Installing a wallet, using an exchange, etc are simple because there are a lot tutorials out there.

I have no idea why Bitcoin must be fun, do fiat, gold and real estate are fun?

Bitcoin although decentralized is also pay to use blockchain.  In order to send the transaction, we need to pay for the transaction fee.  No matter what angle we look at it, Bitcoin usage in transferring funds always has payment.  We are just so used to paying the transaction fee that we get used to it and forget that we pay a fee for sending Bitcoin.

What we expected all along.

It was very clear that pay to do anything blockchains cannot keep their tokens stable, they have dumped on several occasions before such as Axie Infinity. They can just use traditional payment methods inside their apps instead.

Blockchain technology was not built to monetize people in paying for the use of these service, that is one of the reasons it's called an open distributed ledger, it is decentralized, no one controls it, the operation only works by protocols, anyone interested in using it should learn about it and follow the strict compliance to it protocols to be in concession, other social media are profit making platform while this is creating atmosphere and opportunities for everyone to be independent on finances.


Aside that bitcoin cannot be under a centralized system, bitcoin is to give people more access to their finances without having to bother on any form of financial embarrassment, we cannot leave the fiat system to now go back to a central server network, that means we don't know what we are doing, but bitcoin has come to serve a solution to every of this problems.

nope, you have to pay a fee to use it.

bitcoin? are you kidding? it's not free to use at all. its about the most expensive way i know of to "send money".

call it gas or call it a fee. what's the difference? bitcoin is no different than ethereum. except one thing. with eth, even if your transaction fails they still steal the gas.

twitter maybe because elon musk might start charging people to use twitter. but i heard there's a decentralized version of it that is picking up steam but i'm not sure how legit it is...


i mean i think i get where you're coming from but we don't want to be too exclusive with bitcoin otherwise it will just drive people away. the more people that can use it the better but by charging transaction fees, no one wants to do that. it's just a game people play when they convince themself that "its worth it". it's really not. unless you can point to all the other possible ways to send money and show they are all more expensive.

firstly all users need to retrieve their UTXO from somewhere to then form tx's to spend value. but if full archival nodes are only transmitting data to paid partners(lite wallet server owners) then those paid partners will pass on their 'costs' to end users.. EG lite wallets and full nodes charge customers to retrieve their UTXO's (much like banks charge to receive bank statements/ATM balance checks)


seems some core devs are under the impression (probably via their sponsors) that bitcoin inevitably will become a pay-for-blockchain

funny part is the reasons for the bloat of nonsense data the dev quotation has concerns about, that will in his words lead to a drop off nodes and a commercialisation of full nodes.. is due to code he has personally advocated for and desired to be added which then got abused

other funny part is he pretends to define nodes as not requiring features that actually do differentiate them from standard software wallets. as another pre-amble of pretending the network doesnt need to decentralise the blockchain.. thus will lead to commercialisation of the blockchain if less 'nodes' are actually full nodes..  

maybe instead of him worrying about the litigations and commercialisation of blockdata.. he should do his job and make new code to stop the unchecked(auto isvalid) data. EG if witness data is not some form of signature/proof of key system, thats actually listed as a rule. reject tx

also having a NODE that has ability to switch off features like archiving(via pruning) downgrades the utility to just that of being software like litee wallets are, if people dont want to be full nodes they can just use lite wallets.. instead of making what once was a full nodes become a mass mess of limp nodes pretending they are classified as full nodes but not actually offering the full node utility or purpose of what is "full node".. again something he as a core dev can change by ensuring full nodes do full node tasks... instead of these silly PR games of switching off utility but trying to still promote that they are 'full nodes'(a PR campaign his clan of ass kissing friends have been pressing for years)

Are there people after the use of such service, blockchain exist as an independent technology which is free for everyone to use, if some people are trying to introduce something similar then we should be careful not to be a victim of their attack because we are talking on decentralization, anonymity and security here abd i don't think such can be well secured under such a paid service under the guise of being a blockchain technology network, just as you don't pay to use every wallet, the network is also available for free for everyone use.

sure you can download a zillion different bitcoin wallets maybe that's free you can make as many bitcoin addresses as you want but you can't really DO anything with it without paying fees. and those little wallet softwares you download onto your phone aren't full clients. to actually download bitcoin core and keep it updated you are going to pay. pay in computer hardware and internet connection and then when you actually want to do a transaction you're going to pay a fee in bitcoin too.
don't forget all the time it costs you to set up and maintain your copy of the blockchain too because no one is paying you for that...

they never charged me any fee for buying things on ebay.


which is totally free.

apparently facebook marketplace is also free. free to sell stuff on. you don't pay a fee to facebook for using it. apparently.

i thought it was. not your typical go with the flow article.