The network is very congested every few hours the transactions increase it seems I can't make any transactions today with Bitcoin.

It seems there's no chance to make a transaction today with less fee or a transaction with enough fee that we can submit on Viabtc but the problem is I've waited for almost 6 hours but no available free submissions on ViaBTC it seems there are many users are waiting for free submission? or they temporarily remove the available free submission what do you think?

Totally sucks right? Which you do know that you cant really be able to make out some transaction due to high transaction fees. Yes, it might not be that much of an issue for those people who do have tons of
money but for those who are just that average then it would really be something that would make you hesitate on doing so. This is really indeed the first time in history on seeing Bitcoins fee price did reach almost $200 which it is really that too much for a certain transaction. The fee did reduce but it is really that still playing around $20 on the fee on which it is really just that too much. Im already that missing that $0.1-0.3 Fee.
For sure it would really be that taking up some a couple of days or might be a week before everything would be normalizing. We dont know on whats the reason with this kind of spam transactions
in the network whether those are legit tx or something that talks about spam or whatsoever.

You said it yourself, the support is too large from parties, like miners, who profit off of huge fees. As long as the incentive is there, nobody wants to do anything against it. Which is backwards, short-term thinking and will set Bitcoin back and ruin its image. What else are we to do but improve already working solutions? (even if they are merely half-baked)

I think the reason behind about this is many people wants to be part of the blockhalving history and there is a runes currently minting on the Bitcoin blockchain which is I think the reason why the transaction fee keeps increasing it almost 2 weeks when the transaction fee is high before block halving and now after block halving the fees is pretty expensive retailers or smallholders can't able to make a transaction due to fees which is higher than the amount they want to send.

There's no choice but to wait or if I'm lucky enough to see a free submission on ViaBTC I will include it right away before it becomes 0.



It is more likely a plan or a manipulation to me which is why there are runes or inscription minting nowadays is to keep the Bitcoin price at the current level this is just my prediction they use it to congest the network so that people can't sell their BTC while block halving remember the recent bearish last week that keeps all crypto collapse during that week and suddenly transaction fees gradually increasing before block halving? People panic to sell so they use runes and inscriptions to keep the network congested and to avoid retailers and holders selling their coins. What do you think?

This is a much bigger issue than high fees.  We have to stand up for Bitcoin as it was intended. This is about "purely peer-to-peer transactions" and personal freedom.

Bitcoin was intended to solve one of the biggest problems we face as a race and if we don't make sure it survives as "Purely peer-to-peer electronic cash" everyone loses!  The high fees and slow network are a huge problem!   

     When things like this happen, users may change their minds to hold bitcoin in the long run. Because the things that happen over and over again in reality. Especially in these times, there are more opportunities to invest in the top altcoins that appear in the market that have the potential to provide greater profits than bitcoin.

     These are the facts that other investors have gradually realized. Yes, bitcoin is proven and tested, but as its value increases, the chances of investors making a large profit from this asset also decrease. Whereas in other top altcoins, your profit is higher, not insignificantly, you can repeat more than 20x your capital, while in bitcoin, the capital you will use here will not reach 10x.

I'm pretty sure if bitcoin's price rose the way it did over the years but fees stayed low and no changes were made, the assholes would have barged their way into the market anyway but I say fuck 'em anyhow.

And yes, bitcoin was intended to be a p2p form of cash, but:

1) That was a solution in search of a problem, i.e., there was never a public outcry for an alternative to fiat.  Even in countries that experienced hyperinflation, people just used another stable fiat currency.  Hell, even in 2015 or so most people hadn't even heard of bitcoin.

2) Right from the get-go (at least from what I've read in threads from the early years here) people were focusing on bitcoin's price, though there was discussion about merchant adoption and sales of things on the forum and, of course, on the dark web.  But as time went on and bitcoin kept rising, all that talk about companies accepting bitcoin fell off a cliff and it basically became an investment.  And I might add that nobody forced anyone to think of it that way.  It just happened.


LOL.  I've been here long enough such that I should know things like that, but I swear every time I start reading anything technical about crypto my eyes glaze over.  Not out of boredom or disinterest, mind you, but because I don't speak the language of the technical wizards who wrote the code, did the math, the cryptography, whatever.  I studied the wrong thing in college.

BTC> My opinion at the moment aligns with Maximalist like Matthew Kratter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwSN5lKeNEY

Youtube Gemini summarise:

“ This video is about Bitcoin Runes and its negative impacts on Bitcoin.

The speaker of the video, Matthew Crder, argues that Bitcoin Runes is a scam and will likely cause financial loss for people. He mentions that some tokens issued on Bitcoin Runes have dropped over 90% in value within just 24 hours. [1:02]

The creator of Bitcoin Runes, Casey Rmore, is also criticized for his involvement with ordinals and inscriptions, which are other supposedly scammy protocols. The speaker finds Rmore's blog disturbing because it contains content related to bestiality. [1:12]

Bitcoin transaction fees have skyrocketed because of the minting of Bitcoin Runes. The speaker claims that this spam is causing denial-of-service attack on the Bitcoin network, making it expensive to conduct financial transactions. [1:20]

The speaker believes that this spam is a result of unethical crypto VCs trying to profit from Bitcoin. He argues that companies and individuals who promote Bitcoin Runes or similar protocols should be called out. [1:30]

The speaker mentions a few ways to fight against Bitcoin Runes and similar scams. One way is to boycott Bitcoin mining pools that include a lot of Bitcoin Runes transactions in their blocks. The speaker recommends using Ocean, a non-KYC mining pool that allows users to choose block templates that filter out garbage transactions. [1:40]

Another way is to run Bitcoin knots, an alternate version of Bitcoin Core that has better filters for spam transactions. The speaker mentions a few people to follow on Twitter to learn more about this topic, including Bitcoin mechanic, Luke Dasher, Jock Muko, and Leo Half. [1:50]”

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