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by flotzam 2081 days ago
> Each bitcoin transaction costs about $50 now.

That's off by a factor of 18 even if you want it to be fast, according to https://bitcoinfees.earn.com

"The fastest and cheapest transaction fee is currently 110 satoshis/byte, shown in green at the top. For the median transaction size of 224 bytes, this results in a fee of 24,640 satoshis." = .0002464 BTC = $2.81