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by dr_win 2536 days ago
Who is claiming that bitcoin transactions will be used by average person for everyday payments?

Making a bitcoin transaction is like recasting gold bars - not something you want to do often with small amount of gold. This will be done only for large individual payments or for large settlement payments aggregating thousands or millions of normal payments. Everyday payments will be performed on second or higher layers (e.g. Lightning Network)