[aestra]

You're way off. The minimum recommended/default transaction fee is .0001 btc. This can change in the future, it is all about what the miners choose to accept, transaction fees are not fixed.

For fun I sent a transaction of about .3 btc with a fee of .0.00005 btc. It was confirmed in about a day - or so I thought, because on blockchain.info it says +9 minutes so I don't know if that is the confirmation time or not.

The transaction in question - https://blockchain.info/tx/7e2bfff207e5fb6a02890024e790c921e...

[dragontamer]

I missed two zeros on my BTC number, but my dollar amount remains the same. 0.0001 BTC at $500 per BTC == 5 cents per transaction.

You can pay less to lower your priority of course, or pay more to raise your priority. Similarly, miners can focus on higher priority transactions to make their profit.

Nonetheless, the real effects of deflation are beginning to show. BTC is a worse coin than DOGE for internet tipping. It costs more per transaction and takes longer for those transactions to take place. And as long as the BTC community is blinded by deflationary greed, the problem will remain.

Basically, I can transfer money with DOGE within minutes for nearly free (roughly one ten-thousanth of a penny), or I can use BTC to transfer money within hours for $0.05... or within days if I try to be cheaper.