Thinking of buying something with BTC? In order for vendors not to go broke they have to raise the price.

I see a lot of people claim to be using BTC to buy things. It's hard to believe any vendors are taking it with these fees. If they do take it they would be forced to add at least another $20 to the transaction to cover the fee when they move the coins. Want to buy a 8TB hard drive which costs $150? Vendor would need to charge you at least $170 for it with BTC. Probably more the way things have been lately. Before you say well they can just use a payment processor you thing a payment processor is going to eat the fees? No they will pass it on to the vendor or the person doing the tx. Who is willing to pay an extra $20 or more on top of their tx fee for an item? I'm sure as heck not. Not even willing to pay and extra 20 cents. Luckily with BCH you don't have to.

Before the LN shills show up and say just use that well LN was never designing for sending more than around $40 in the first place. Getting $150 to route would be a crap shoot assuming you don't need to pay a fee or 2 to open a channel in the first place.

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