Concern about the bitcoin hard fork — a protocol designed to address
slow transaction times as currency use increases — carried over from 2016 into 2017, a concern that gave many observers uncertainty about bitcoin's future.
In a recent interview with CNBC, the former president of PayPal pointed to perceived issues with existing cryptocurrencies, specifying high transaction fees and
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In a recent interview with the U.K.'s Sunday
Times, Dorsey predicted that bitcoin will eventually be the single global reserve currency and argued that its
slow and costly
transactions will eventually «go away»
as more people migrate to the blockchain.
All across the Bitcoin landscape,
transactions were
slow and users were frustrated
as the network experienced some of the highest trading volumes of all
time.
Stripe said it will stop accepting Bitcoin
as a payment method because of the currency's volatility,
slow transaction times and ever - increasing processing fees.
As it becomes more popular and adds users and nodes,
transaction processing
times become even
slower.
Bitcoin's
transaction fees have been racing sky - high in recent months, even
as the completion
times for each
transaction slowed down.
Bitcoin advocates have long championed Lightning
as the crucial solution to the ongoing high
transaction fees and
slow confirmation
times which have plagued the network since its mass uptake which began around one year ago.
These difficulty oscillations are making block creation
times very
slow on the Bitcoin Cash network and are also resulting in a growing backlog of
transactions in Bitcon
as well.
Dorsey himself also admits that in its present state, Bitcoin does not fulfil his prerequisites for
transactions, describing them
as «
slow and costly» despite recent huge reductions in both fees and waiting
times.
Merchants had problems to deal with the fees involved in a Bitcoin
transaction as well
as with the
slow transaction times.
Nonetheless, in light of the
slow transactions times and high fees we witnessed in November and December of last year, this is a welcome sight to the active bitcoin community who actually use bitcoin
as a spending currency and to send money abroad.