No gambling today due to bitcoin high transaction fee.

[Crypt0Gore]

how is going today?

It's good because the halving happened but not that good when we're looking at the fees of it. These BRC20, NFT bitcoin blockchain and Runes crazy folks that are spamming the network so, doing good and bad at the same time.

Who among us here can still afford to gamble?

I won't afford to pay for that sums of fee. If I want to gamble today, I'd choose the altcoins that have lesser fees or simply go on with Litecoin or any other altcoins like Dogecoin or even XRP if I have to.

I have been screaming this out loud for a long time now, what brc20 and runes will cause will make Bitcoin not as interesting as it used to be, this is just the tip of the iceberg, we haven't seen anything yet.

What do you think will happen once there is a bigger bull market and those ordinals have huge amounts of volume? There will be sluggish on the network with high transaction fees too, probably higher than what we see right now.

Buckle up guys, they claimed that ordinals will make miners get fat pocket but in the end, it is killing Bitcoin users, if mining is the only thing that makes sense with Bitcoin just because of what miners will make then the whole thing doesn't make sense anymore.

[Apocollapse]

Maybe in future we will see LN being adopted in some form on casinos so as to smoothen these issues even more and then nobody would worry about fees again.

No need to wait for the future, there are many casinos have been adopted Lightning Network List of Gambling Site Accept Lightning Network.

Even though Lightning Network is cheap, but it's not cheap at all.

If you didn't have Bitcoin in lightning network, you need to convert it, so you need to pay on chain fees.

If you didn't have a channel, you need to fund it using on chain fees too.

[moneystery]

and because of that i don't use bitcoin for my gambling because the fees are unreasonable at some times. even to make a transaction right now it costs 15 usd, it's just quite unreasonable. and because it is better to choose another payment method that is more reasonable than bitcoin, usually casinos provide alternatives that gamblers can use if they find it difficult to use bitcoin as their payment, and usdt is usually the best choice.

[Viscore]

Maybe in future we will see LN being adopted in some form on casinos so as to smoothen these issues even more and then nobody would worry about fees again.

No need to wait for the future, there are many casinos have been adopted Lightning Network List of Gambling Site Accept Lightning Network.

Even though Lightning Network is cheap, but it's not cheap at all.

If you didn't have Bitcoin in lightning network, you need to convert it, so you need to pay on chain fees.

If you didn't have a channel, you need to fund it using on chain fees too.

And some aren't interested with the lightning network as it could be complicated for them. So why would they choose an LN if they can use an alternative coins. As of now, there are a lot of casinos already that are accepting altcoins and it's not anymore a problem using it as there are exchanges that have a decent volume on it, so it's easier to gamble even if we wager a bigger amount.

OP was just probably discussing about the current situation, but this will be gone soon as bitcoin will be back to its normal transaction fee average. As I'm checking now, the fees are down to $15 already, so tomorrow maybe we will see a max $5 on this.

[livingfree]

This is where altcoins is going to be a good option.
Any gambler can still send USDT to a casino which is what I also did. I tried checking how much the fees today also because I wanna send to an exchange from my wallet, and the fee is more than the amount I wanna send. For a gambler, nothing can stop especially when boxing of Haney and Ryan Garcia is about to happen so I just send a few USDT from the exchange.

https://talkimg.com/images/2024/04/20/j7LVq.jpeg

Just a screenshot of how much I would have paid for sending a few bucks.

Compared to yesterday, it's cheaper now but compared to the normal days, it's still quite expensive. So whom did you bet? If Garcia, congrats.

Yeah same here as well, those fees are insanely high and for me it's not an option doing transactions. I'd rather choose another option like Doge or stable coins. We can afford to gamble but not the fees of course haha that is too much for me. And even big players I don't think they are gonna do that as well.

Doge all the way, right?  

We can't afford to transact with those fees but if you've got some balance in BTC already sitting in the casino you're gambling then you have no problem with that not unless you start to withdraw.

I have been screaming this out loud for a long time now, what brc20 and runes will cause will make Bitcoin not as interesting as it used to be, this is just the tip of the iceberg, we haven't seen anything yet.

What do you think will happen once there is a bigger bull market and those ordinals have huge amounts of volume? There will be sluggish on the network with high transaction fees too, probably higher than what we see right now.

Buckle up guys, they claimed that ordinals will make miners get fat pocket but in the end, it is killing Bitcoin users, if mining is the only thing that makes sense with Bitcoin just because of what miners will make then the whole thing doesn't make sense anymore.

I've seen this in the past but not as big as yesterday. I'm prepared to what will happen but I strongly disagree with you about this with the brc20/rune cause of the high fees.

There's so much privilege for Bitcoin and despite this problem has been existing since several years ago, it'll remain where it is right now and eventually this high fees problem will be solved.

[aioc]

This high fee is probably due to the 4th halving that was completed. I haven't seen this type of transaction fee this hight.

All of us are caught with these huge fees, I should have transacted but I wanted to know what the halving would bring so I delayed my transaction only to get caught with a very unusually high fee.

This is only for gamblers who use bitcoin as the payment method, how is going today? Who among us here can still afford to gamble?

Gambling activity will continue, on all the platforms on the internet online casinos will never cease their operation because of the very high transactions of Bitcoin, there are altcoins to turn to, and I'm sure gamblers who use Bitcoin have contingency plans in case they can't deposit Bitcoin, gamblers will always have alternative.

[GxSTxV]

Today for the Low Priority transactions the fees are 138 sat/vB which is around 12,5$, if you are a gambler with low budget these fees are considered really high, maybe a round betting in slots or a hand in BlackJack will be wasted. Personally, whenever the fees are high like lately, I prefer to exchange a small quantity of bitcoin to USDT or BNB with lower fees. It’s a process that I do with centralized exchange which I don’t recommend, preferably to choose a decentralized exchange and it has lower fees.

However, If you are not thinking about exchanging your Bitcoin to other coins, at the same time you can’t afford the fees of transaction, maybe it’s a good opportunity to give gambling a rest and find a better activity and have fun, after all it’s not an obligation to gamble all the time.

[BABY SHOES]

There are still altcoin alternatives to still be able to play gambling at your favorite casino.

For a long time bitcoin has experienced a lot of congestion in its network due to high fees even though it was once low again, but as an option I chose altcoins instead of bitcoin for the reason that the cost is cheaper the withdrawal is more minimal in contrast to bitcoin.

I don't know how a gambler who often deposits with bitcoin feels, maybe he will postpone gambling until the mempool subsides, unless a whale deposits a large amount then the $100 fee is not a problem.

[EarnOnVictor]

This high fee is probably due to the 4th halving that was completed. I haven't seen this type of transaction fee this hight.

If you look at https://mempool.emzy.de/, the current transaction fee is  over $50 but in the past few hours it was over $100... So if you are a gambler who doesn't gamble that much like your range is only $10 to $100, it's impossible you will choose to gamble today with that very high fees.

This is only for gamblers who use bitcoin as the payment method, how is going today? Who among us here can still afford to gamble?

Thank God the Mempool is now better, it was scary in the wake of halving and it is not acceptable in a sane system. The miners have once again demonstrated their selfishness and continue to cause issues on the Mempool. I was able to see almost around $200 fee at that time, which is insane and a taint on a system like that of Bitcoin that other cryptocurrencies were supposed to look up to.

However, it is good for us to foresee a thing like that, I had foreseen it, since miners that could be exploiting people on a normal day, how much more would they do on a special day like that? In future, in a time like that, having enough money in your gambling account is good, this should be able to serve well until the whole situation comes back to normal.

Also, Bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency to make deposits into casino accounts, use the alternatives. But if your casinos doesnn't allow that, they will be the ones to lose, just deposit into another casino account and continue to enjoy your betting as usual.

[Su-asa]

and because of that i don't use bitcoin for my gambling because the fees are unreasonable at some times. even to make a transaction right now it costs 15 usd, it's just quite unreasonable. and because it is better to choose another payment method that is more reasonable than bitcoin, usually casinos provide alternatives that gamblers can use if they find it difficult to use bitcoin as their payment, and usdt is usually the best choice.

From my opinion, I have known some casinos to have other payments methods and if a casino have only only 1 option for deposits, that means they will not have much customers because there are people that feels comfortable with Bitcoin and there are others that always use altcoins for gambling. So as bitcoin fees is very high they will likely switch over to USDT when they want to deposit.

[Crypto Library]

Every time I see this congested state of Memepool, I get annoyed, even if I don't want to, I have to find an alternative to bitcoin for transaction. It is in all cases starting from gambling to all the services I use as payment, I am being shifted from the Bitcoin network to another network. But I don't stop my gambling it is going on now I am using litecoin even today I have also doing two of my betting and I have on both of them, So I think there is no connection with the bitcoin to gambling, gambling will go it's own way and on the other hand bitcoin will go its way. And I think we don't  should stop our self from entertaining because of only the tx fee is high cz there is alternative ways ae already available

[Mia Chloe]

Fees are actually going back to normal gradually. As for now a majority of persons have paused and transaction till fees become economical once again. Likewise most gamblers either paused funding their gambling wallet with Bitcoins or made use of other networks to deposit like USDT or even Tron. Gamblers that are still able to stake this period are those who already had some funds in their gambling wallet or recently funded their gambling wallet before the recent Bitcoin fee increase.
I that alternatively most gamblers are making used of other coins and tokens accepted by their online casinos to fund their gambling wallets instead of making use of Bitcoin during this period of high fees.

[darkangel11]

and because of that i don't use bitcoin for my gambling because the fees are unreasonable at some times. even to make a transaction right now it costs 15 usd, it's just quite unreasonable. and because it is better to choose another payment method that is more reasonable than bitcoin, usually casinos provide alternatives that gamblers can use if they find it difficult to use bitcoin as their payment, and usdt is usually the best choice.

Good for you. You'd have to be insane to pay over $200 for a bitcoin transaction. Probably another stupid move by the ordinals people...
Anyways, I've always said that if someone wants to burn money just to prove a point, we should let them. Your money, do whatever you want, I can wait and you will eventually run out.
As long as this continues other people will not sent any transactions, decreasing the total number of transactions, so that the people who are fighting for their spot in the next block can duke it out.

[milewilda]

Fees are actually going back to normal gradually. As for now a majority of persons have paused and transaction till fees become economical once again. Likewise most gamblers either paused funding their gambling wallet with Bitcoins or made use of other networks to deposit like USDT or even Tron. Gamblers that are still able to stake this period are those who already had some funds in their gambling wallet or recently funded their gambling wallet before the recent Bitcoin fee increase.
I that alternatively most gamblers are making used of other coins and tokens accepted by their online casinos to fund their gambling wallets instead of making use of Bitcoin during this period of high fees.

As it should be since there's no other way that it could go through which it would be going down or something on the time that it would normalize on which this is something that do really happen.
There are really times or moments which these fees do really spike up specially on some event or whatever reason it could be. There are really just that people who do make out some exagerrated
comments specially newbie ones when these spikes do happen as they could really be able to see some alternative or coins on which they could really make use on the time that they do gamble.
Come to think that Bitcoin isnt the only coin that you could really make use out of these platforms.

It is really that settling down now, it might take up a few hours or even a couple of days before it would goes back to normal. This would really be always a test of patience
and instead on making yourself getting pissed or disappoint then it would be best that you should look for other places on wheer you could put yourself to enjoy on.

[Jating]

Fees are actually going back to normal gradually. As for now a majority of persons have paused and transaction till fees become economical once again. Likewise most gamblers either paused funding their gambling wallet with Bitcoins or made use of other networks to deposit like USDT or even Tron. Gamblers that are still able to stake this period are those who already had some funds in their gambling wallet or recently funded their gambling wallet before the recent Bitcoin fee increase.
I that alternatively most gamblers are making used of other coins and tokens accepted by their online casinos to fund their gambling wallets instead of making use of Bitcoin during this period of high fees.

Nah, fees are still going up, and it really depends on the timezones, sometimes I will see that the fees are going down to like 90 sat/vB. But after several hours, with no pump in the price, it will go back to 200's sat/vB. So no Bitcoin deposit for now, just the fees alone will eat up our money for gambling. So either uses USDT or other altcoins that is fast and quick, or totally stop gambling which is very hard to do. Or maybe there are gamblers here who might think of the alternative fiat platform just to stay away from the Bitcoin high fees for now.

[alani123]

People using bitcoin to deposit to casinos probably won't care paying a fee of 10 or 25$. Those of us that care and are already experienced enough with crypto are most likely already aware of alternative methods probably. Like for example using USDT on BSC or Tron network to pay fees like 1 USDT per transfer. Even that is a big high for some people but hey, at least compared to ETH and BTC fees it is very much on the low side. I don't know how often people withdraw from gambling casinos though.

I'd guess it's mostly that people care about how much it costs them to deposit. And for such reasons most crypto casinos are also introducing credit card payment methods lately also. Even if you pay a 10% fee to deposit crypto via credit card payment, it still makes sense on low payment amounts like 10$

[Rabbitqt]

I don't understand why people are even using BTC for transfers? When you can basically use any other crypto and pay less than 3 cents in transfer fees...

[Wiwo]

and because of that i don't use bitcoin for my gambling because the fees are unreasonable at some times. even to make a transaction right now it costs 15 usd, it's just quite unreasonable. and because it is better to choose another payment method that is more reasonable than bitcoin, usually casinos provide alternatives that gamblers can use if they find it difficult to use bitcoin as their payment, and usdt is usually the best choice.

Multiple payments methods I'd one of the features of contemporary casino's because what most gamblers look put for is how to fine the best alternative to whatever is giving them issue's  such as payment system and if at any time bitcoin fees become unbearable like the current situation then you can switch to alternative currency that have less fees.

USDT is one of the most used currency due to the low fees and foster transactions on the stable coin network.

[Alone055]

Gambling with Bitcoin is not a good idea even if the fees aren't as high as they are right now, at least I don't like it.

It's better if you gamble using stable coins because it makes it easier for you to keep a count if you are using a stable coin such as USDT, you will know how much you are using as the bet, how much you had, how much you have lost or won, etc., but if you are gambling with Bitcoin, it wouldn't be that easy and you will need to see the conversion of Bitcoin to USDT first to find out what you are trying to see.

People who use Bitcoin for gambling might not agree with me, but that is what I think and it is what I do when I'm gambling for better clarity.

[boyptc]

Gambling with Bitcoin is not a good idea even if the fees aren't as high as they are right now, at least I don't like it.

It's fine to gamble with BTC if the fees are bearable and cheap but if the situation is like this, I'll be the first one to stop.

It's better if you gamble using stable coins because it makes it easier for you to keep a count if you are using a stable coin such as USDT, you will know how much you are using as the bet, how much you had, how much you have lost or won, etc., but if you are gambling with Bitcoin, it wouldn't be that easy and you will need to see the conversion of Bitcoin to USDT first to find out what you are trying to see.

USDT or any other altcoins that has a cheap transfer. Doge, LTC and even TRON are the other choices of most of the gamblers for altcoins gambling. USDT is fine because you get the actual value of it but you should also choose the network where you'll send it because ERC20 is not cheap anymore.

People who use Bitcoin for gambling might not agree with me, but that is what I think and it is what I do when I'm gambling for better clarity.

It's okay, to each their own.