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 <p class="paragraph">Bitcoin’s (BTC) average transaction fees reached a 4-month high of $24.39 on April 12, nearing the world’s average daily income of $26.66. Bitcoin users and investors now wonder how far network transaction fees can go in the following weeks.</p>
 <p class="paragraph">Finbold retrieved on-chain data from <em>BitInfoCharts</em> on April 13 regarding the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="average" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/average.html">average</a> network fees paid by <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="users" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/users.html">users</a> the day before. Notably, the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="average" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/average.html">average</a> transaction fee historical chart displays USD levels seen for the last time in December 2023.</p>
 <p class="paragraph">Yet, this increase is partially explained by Bitcoin’s year-to-date price surge, considering lower <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="average" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/average.html">average</a>s previously measured in BTC or sats/vB. On April 12, the network registered an <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="average" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/average.html">average</a> of 0.00036 BTC paid per transaction, at a 158.3 sats/vB rate.</p>
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 <p class="paragraph">This rate means that 0.00000158 BTC was paid for each virtual byte (vB) stored in the leading blockchain. Interestingly, this results in an <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="average" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/average.html">average</a> of $0.10/vB, with Bitcoin trading at $67,750 by press time.</p>
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   Bitcoin Average Transaction Fee historical chart. Source: <em>BitInfoCharts</em>
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 <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-bitcoin-transaction-fees-at-the-average-global-personal-income">Bitcoin transaction fees at the average global personal income</h2>
 <p class="paragraph">In this context, it is worth understanding how significant the recent Bitcoin average transaction fees are for the world’s population.</p>
 <p class="paragraph">A study published one year ago – on April 13, 2023 – by <em>Zippia</em>, highlights this significance. In particular, the yearly average global personal income of $9,733 translates to a daily average of $26.66. Thus, just $2.27 higher than the current network fees observed for the most popular cryptocurrency, promised as “freedom money.”</p>
 <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="1024" height="608" src="https://cdn.thebittimes.com/images/2024/04/13/ad1cc789e1b7332f430c33d42f906989.webp" alt class="wp-image-168611" srcset="https://cdn.thebittimes.com/images/2024/04/13/ad1cc789e1b7332f430c33d42f906989.webp 1024w, https://cdn.thebittimes.com/images/2024/04/13/ad1cc789e1b7332f430c33d42f906989.webp 300w, https://cdn.thebittimes.com/images/2024/04/13/ad1cc789e1b7332f430c33d42f906989.webp 768w, https://cdn.thebittimes.com/images/2024/04/13/ad1cc789e1b7332f430c33d42f906989.webp 1536w, https://cdn.thebittimes.com/images/2024/04/13/ad1cc789e1b7332f430c33d42f906989.webp 1594w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">
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   Research summary | Average global personal income. Source: <em>Zippia</em>
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 <p class="paragraph">In summary, the combination of these data is evidence that the average Bitcoin user is paying the equivalent of the average world’s working day. Therefore, this raises questions about Bitcoin’s ability to deliver the project’s promise of being a “peer-to-peer electronic cash system” at a worldwide scale, in Satoshi Nakamoto‘s words.</p>
 <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="the-price-of-freedom">The price of freedom</h2>
 <p class="paragraph">According to Alex Gadstein, Chief Strategy Office of the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), this promise is one of Bitcoin’s key use cases, which supports freedom and helps fight dictatorships.</p>
 <p class="paragraph">Now, this vision could be threatened by the protocol’s particular design, as a result of unpredictable network fees and limited usability for people who live below the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="average" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/average.html">average</a> income threshold. For that reason, Bitcoin developers and investors have been researching second-layer solutions, to diminish end-user fees, and increase its accessibility.</p>
 <p class="paragraph">On the other hand, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC), and Monero (XMR) offer significantly lower transaction fees for the average user. Furthermore, the cryptocurrency landscape also has unique approaches like Nano (XNO), securely working since 2015 with absolute zero network fees.</p>
 <p class="paragraph">Despite the different designs, these projects still hold the decentralization ethos promoted by the leading competitor, and the will to achieve more accessible freedom through peer-to-peer permissionless money systems.</p>
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<p>Source: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://thebittimes.com/price-of-freedom-bitcoin-users-pay-a-world-s-average-working-day-in-fees-tbt85277.html">https://thebittimes.com/price-of-freedom-bitcoin-users-pay-a-world-s-average-working-day-in-fees-tbt85277.html</a></p>

Price of freedom? Bitcoin users pay a world’s average working day in fees

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