Sky blue lightning and breakout type s and adds for heatwave <| sep |> Again not my point . For years CAH was only available online and wouldn ' t be able to have them stocked in retail stores . <| sep |> Here is the post for archival purposes Author Noosterdam Content Bitcoin ' s main uses are for capital controls , store of value , offshoring , and dark markets . The first three are highly feeinsensitive , but dark markets are only somewhat feeinsensitive . Once fees get into the $ 1 range you ' re going to have drug buyers and vendors feeling the heat and wanting to switch . I mean , it ' s pretty simple if there are quite a few dealers willing to accept an alt , and it only costs a onetime few dollars to exchange your BTC to the alt via Shapeshift , then you save emdollarsem off every subsequent purchase , this altcoin thing is going to catch on really quickly . Then Bitcoin ' s network effect is lost , followed by investors , then all the other pivotal mustuseBitcoin use cases I mentioned . TLDRstrong The cost of darkmarket users periodically shapeshifting their BTC into alts for spending money is the limiting factor on how high Bitcoin fees can go without breaking the commercial network effect until 2 ndlayer scaling arrives . Any guesses on where that fee level is ?