[pmachinery]

1. Middle-people are a technical requirement. That's the point.

2. What happens if I send BTC without paying the middle-people a fee?

If the recipient doesn't typically receive it in seconds (and there's a public log of every sent and received 'message') let's stop making stuff up like bitcoin makes sending money like sending an email.

[Acrobatic_Road]

It depends.

* you can mine your own transaction if you have the ability

* you can use a layer 2 state channel network like lightening (bitcoin/litecoin) or raiden (ethereum) to exchange value without a miner.

* if you are worried about fees, there are networks like EOS which don't have have them.

* there is at least 1 ethereum wallet that will pay your fees for you.

* if you use monero, the miner can't distinguish your transaction from anyone else's, so there's little to worry about with regard to selective censorship.

* if a bitcoin/ethereum miner does censor you, it doesn't mean your transaction doesn't get processed because there are other miners.

Hope this info is helpful.