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		faeyanpiraat on Jan 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s not still the early days of blockchain You mean that I can have 1btc in 1 piece, or have basically 0 usable btc if I have 1btc gained in like a 1000 small transactions over time? So when I “spend” that fragmented 1 btc, it all gets eaten up by fees?

Hjfrf on Jan 15, 2022 [–]

There was a update on bitcoin last year ("taproot") to improve that issue.

Prior to that it was absolutely the case that multiple sender addresses caused multiple fees.

Not sure about other cryptocurrency.

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