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Bitcoin Transaction Fees Lowest Since 2014 by hunter5

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Bitcoin Transaction Fees Lowest Since 2014
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Bitcoins ๐Ÿฅ‡ transaction ๐Ÿ”ƒ volume in December #2018 increased to levels not seen since the #December #2017 crypto #bubble ๐ŸŽˆ , over 350,000 transactions. 

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Despite this, transaction fees haven stayed low โฌ‡๏ธ, around 25 cents per transaction. This tells us two things:

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More people ๐Ÿ“ถ are trading and or actually using #crypto (adoption).
The Bitcoin ๐Ÿฅ‡ #network is properly scaling so it can efficiently handle ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ higher volumes of transactions.
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The efficiency #gains can be attributed to SegWit, a soft fork ๐Ÿดupgrade that the Bitcoin software ๐Ÿ’ป received in 2017, which made transactions take up less space on the #blockchain ๐Ÿ“ฆ.

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Currently only about 60% of bitcoin wallets have activated SegWit โš™๏ธso costs should continue to go down as #SegWit โš™๏ธ activation continues. 

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Lighting Network โšก๏ธ, another potential Bitcoin #upgrade could reduce transaction fees to less than a penny in the #future .

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Currently, companies like @visa and @mastercard ๐Ÿ’ณ charge 2-2.5% per transaction so any transaction over $15 would actually be cheaper to do in bitcoin #today โš–๏ธ. 

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Bitcoin ๐Ÿฅ‡will continue to #develop and mature, but itโ€™s also #important to stop and realize the #progress it has made already.

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