Sorry, I am not following you.This sentence doesn’t make sense to me:
“the value of UTXO goes up so does the value of fees but you pay the same fees regardless of the UTXO size”
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If you calculate fees in USD the USD value of fees will always go up as the value of Bitcoin goes up. Your percentage approach is good but what I am trying to say is if Bitcoin goes up 10x the fees will also go 10x in USD terms so it just a math. If i am to transfer 100k USD (0.1 BTC when BTC is one million cuck bucks) I have no problem in paying $500 or $1000 in fees. But that’s because I do not plan to transfer small amounts into the future as I hodl Bitcoin very long term and will sell it only for something that will greatly improve the quality of my life
Fees are not correlated to the price of bitcoin. Fees are related to how much data is in a transaction and the competition to get that data included in a block.
If you have to combine 15 utxos into a single transaction, instead of having the same value in one utxo, you are going to pay more in fees, becuase you need to include more data.
This is why everyone should consolidate their utxos, during times of low fees. It's better to spend one large utxo, than 10 or 15, as it contains less data.