I agree . I ' m so glad that Segwit will double transaction capacity through bigger blocks and reduce fees immediately once activated . Thank you uolivierjanss for bringing attention to the need to upgrade to Core 0 . 13 . 1 and support segwit . You are awesome ! !<| sep |> Well , it would bother me , because the reason I got excited about bitcoin was the idea , that eventually it may be possible to free oneself of fiat currency forever . So , the 2 . 00 fees largely remove that possiblity . Yes , that would require other second tier solutions to ever make the ideal possible , but fees at the base level still impact the economic case . <| sep |> People love to rip on country music <| sep |> He ' s not usually this bad live . Idk wtf happened to him lol