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by phillipsjk 2348 days ago
Of course the fees would drop after raising the blocksize.

The current fees are well above the marginal transaction costs of processing and storing those transactions. (I estimated it was 3cents/kB, assuming GB scale blocks on ~1000 4U (36 bay) servers with 10Gbps networking distributed world-wide.) Other analysis I have seen erroneously assumes the POW is a marginal cost: which is only true with a tiny, limited, block-size.

During the September 1, 2018 "stress test" on the BCH network, the average transaction cost actually went down. All while the network processed 2 million transactions in a day.

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Pretty much this. I don't think greg has read any economic theory, let alone introductory microeconomics where you would see the idea of 'marginal analysis'. I mean his reply suggests that demand is entirely static, or inelastic, which would be interesting to study, but certainly shouldn't be assumed, and is likely completely false.