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Exactly. The issue is that people are to accustomed to paying little to no fees, so nobody wants to pay a few cents more for faster confirmations.

Having little or no fees was supposed to be one of the big advantages of bitcoin compared to traditional financial transactions.

Not true at all. I'm not sure where people get this idea but if you read Satoshi's original paper you'll see that this is just false.

Unfortunately, this is how Bitcoin was promoted for a long time. "Free, instant transactions!" It always bugged me.

My transaction just cost nearly $1, so yeh, thats a lot of cents for some people, and the point is that it is an unnecessary constraint.