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by tromp 1936 days ago
I expect transaction fees will dominate the block reward within 4 halvings, as they are already within an order of magnitude of the block subsidy...
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Yes, they’ll dominate, but will they stay high enough to maintain the current level of security? Average transaction fees would have to go up ~8x in real dollar terms to do so, meanwhile if Layer 2 solutions take off there could be downward pressure from existing levels.