In order to maintain its security, Bitcoin needs high transaction fees on the base layer. Wait, what?!

As the mining reward gets reduced in half after every 210.000 blocks (~4 years), the miners need to get paid in order to afford sustaining their security service.

As outlined in the Bitcoin whitepaper and according to the inflation schedule to 21 million coins, mining will at one point get paid entirety by transaction fees.

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