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mrbyesterday at 8:36 AM5 repliesview on HN

Tx fees make up a bigger and bigger fraction of miner rewards over time.


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rcxdudeyesterday at 10:19 AM

Is a store of value that requires a significant fraction of it be eaten up by transaction fees to maintain security going to be actually useful in the long term?

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buzzin__yesterday at 3:42 PM

But transaction fees reset to zero on each block. If relying solely on transaction fees, why would you mine if they are zero? So, on the start of each block, miners will shutdown, or perhaps switch to a different currency where it would be profitable to mine. This surely weakens the security of Bitcoin.

jcfreiyesterday at 10:44 AM

transaction fees are not increasing though, so they can't offset miner rewards. they have been in the $100k-$200k per day range for a long time, with only occasional breakouts: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/charts/transaction-fees-... and the trend is not to the upside. in fact with the arrival of ETFs in 2024 the trend is clearly downwards.

Saline9515yesterday at 11:03 AM

Rewards decrease due to halving and there is no guarantee that transaction fees will compensate it.

officialchickenyesterday at 9:08 AM

Rewards are also a permanent infinite money glitch that last in perpetuity? Or won't be changed in the future?