This is what happens when you don ' t put s I guess <| sep |> Tell them to leave . <| sep |> To be fair , when I come up against bad survivors I usually catch them in the infinite in the 2 nd or 3 rd rotation . Seems like rank 8 1 s who choose to abuse infinites give me the most problems . <| sep |> Or else people will just keep moving their money with the guys who let them move it with no fees . Yes , that would be the case , if the maximum fee where people stop paying for transactions were too low . but that clearly isn ' t the case , even the current fee is substantial enough per block to be worth something to the miners , and that ' s the lower bound , it could go much higher . You ' re right that at some point the fee will stop rising , but you ' re wrong that people will suddenly stop paying the fee at all at that point or something like that . It will stop rising because it has met an equilibrium , at which it will stay , or rise further from in the future with more demand . It won ' t reach a breaking point and suddenly drop off a cliff for no reason , it will just stop rising at some level . I would wager than the fee could go significantly higher than the fees for banks credit cards and the blocks would still easily fill up . Most of the people using Bitcoin for transactions right now are hard core enthusiasts that use it even though it ' s not actually the best tool to use for what they ' re trying to do , and for them it won ' t matter if the fee is fairly high . And , even putting all that aside , even if you think that it isn ' t in the miners best interest . clearly the miners think otherwise , and it ' s what they think that matters in the end .