> in reality that means that the market is willing to pay for those transactions to occur which suggests that there is some real utility
It means that it is useful for those who can afford the absurd gas prices for just about any operation on Ethereum than those who are sending small amounts to perhaps test before permanently sending their money to a dead wallet and paying the gas fee too.
So it makes sense for someone to pay >= $1,000 in fees to approve and move / swap $1 - $100 worth of tokens? That is not 'real utility'. It makes it really useless.
> So it makes sense for someone to pay >= $1,000 in fees to approve and move / swap $1 - $100 worth of tokens?
That's like arguing that all container ships are useless because I only order a few dozen small packages a year.
The gas prices are set by supply and demand so the value created by the gas prices must be an acceptable cost for the amount of value the transaction is creating.
Just because something is cost prohibitive at your scale doesn't mean it is for everyone.
> Just because something is cost prohibitive at your scale doesn't mean it is for everyone.
So I can use Ethereum to pay for my groceries then? Everyone needs to eat. It's creator painfully admitted that gas fees should not be at those prices in the first place.
Good to know that you can't even send a test transaction these days.
That's being fixed. The main chain can only do a few dozen transactions per second, but fees are a lot lower on rollups which can do a couple thousand, and sharding will multiply that by a factor of twenty initially and a lot more later.
It means that it is useful for those who can afford the absurd gas prices for just about any operation on Ethereum than those who are sending small amounts to perhaps test before permanently sending their money to a dead wallet and paying the gas fee too.
So it makes sense for someone to pay >= $1,000 in fees to approve and move / swap $1 - $100 worth of tokens? That is not 'real utility'. It makes it really useless.