The cryptocurrency exchange Hit BTC has notified its clients that they need to pay a new fee to deposit bitcoin into the platform. This move might be replicated by more exchanges in time as they try to find ways to cope with the high fees on the network other than not accepting new clients or advising their existing ones to use litecoin or bitcoin cash instead.
Hit BTC Fees
HitBTC Introduces Bitcoin Deposit Charges to Deal With High FeesHit BTC has announced that starting from Friday December 22, users are now charged a fixed fee for all bitcoin deposits. This new deposit fee will be deducted from the amount of any incoming transaction to Hit BTC, and will constitute 0.0003 BTC. The company warns that if a deposit is lower than or equal to the fee, the whole amount will be used up as commission and will not be refunded.
High fees are currently a major concern for all businesses that deal with bitcoin, especially those with higher volume of transactions. Bitpay recently explained that high fees make BTC invoice payments under $100 impractical and uneconomical. The global payments service provider even stopped allowing those sub $100 transactions, enacting a minimum, before hastily restoring them under pressure from the bitcoin community.
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