But until now all we can see that even though backlog is increased in new ath level the price of bitcoin spikes to ath too. It seems investors they don't care about it.

if the price is determined by whales and rich people who only trde on the exchange i don't see the fee doing anything, they are ignoring it at the moment

but the value can't increase only because of those people, all the other people that are not tech savy and want to go with bitcoin will likely refuse toi pay that fee, and therefore you are losing a potential value increase right now

what i mean is that right now with a 2MB limit with segwit for example you would have in all likelihood, a higher value

  Nothing would happen to bitcoin.

     Just the bitcoin community would continue using with higher transaction fees to avoid delay in transactions.Nothing could stop mass bitcoin adoption.Its unstoppable.Just the low transaction fees which is one of the main feature of bitcoin would be forgotten by every one.It would remain only in history.

It looks like no amount of Roger Ver spam + organic growth is going to push the price down. People value being able to run their own full validating nodes way too much.

I would feel pretty stupid if I was the idiot wasting so much money in spam transactions. Also mining empty blocks is pretty dumb at this point. No matter what they do, the price goes up, and BUGcoin futures are dead.

If the backlog hasn't affected so far probably it won't now too, at least not in great deal. It's true that this is a huge issue that causes big problems so system needs to be improved. However it's not the reason to abandone Bitcoin, things could be solved but it takes good will of all involved parties.

If the investors will notice that because of the big amount of unconfirmed transactions then it will be a huge problem for bitcoin because they will think that bitcoin is not convenient because of its unconfirmed transaction so there will be a chance that a panic selling will occurs and that will affect the bitcoin price.

There would be more unconfirmed transaction if the transactions always stayed in the queue. The crazy part is that we have unconfirmed transactions in the hundreds of thousands and it is growing. That means some go through eventually, but from what I see the majority of them are rejected and go back to the originating sender.

If this keeps building up it will be solo backlogged that people will just stop using btc. We need more people using btc, not less using it and paying a higher fee. Miners are winning hard right now.

That something i have been thinking about. If i was to cash out my BTCs on the exchange for fiat, then what. Transfer to wallet - pay fees. Sell via Localbitcoins - pay fees.

Then i thought i would simply sell my account and the buyer will have ownership of my account with BTCs. No fees.

You summed that up very well. Please share with us you you tink might happen if you had to guess.

You summed that up very well. Please share with us you you tink might happen if you had to guess.
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In the past I have misjudged inertia rather badly, e.g.  I was a researcher at AT&T Bell Labs back when Lucent was created, cleaving the equipment
design/manufacture from the service. A rampant question among us was where to go? Lucent or AT&T? I knew quite a lot about the
products Lucent would inherit and I was confident that Lucent was ultimately a loser... too big/wasteful/slow/unaware/noncompetitive relative
to all the hungry upstarts.

I knew it was a loser, but made the mistake of thinking that because the collapse was inevitable, because I saw it, it would start happening.
It did happen, but first I watched a 20-30 times price growth in the stock over a couple+ years   -  a case of "the market can remain
irrational longer than you can remain solvent'.

Many people in this domain have very strong opinions about what is going to happen.
It is a very human way of processing information. Start with agenda; weigh each piece of information as it comes in; if it supports my agenda I
call it true; if it hurts my agenda I call it false, and slander the source of the information while I am at it.

I am interested in profit, not satisfaction for my id (as in the Freudian id).
So... to answer your question, I really do not know. I feel sure it will be a problem, even with support for a "solution", rolling it
out at current political/monetary scale will be non-trivial indeed.

But I respect the power of inertia which I suspect will keep the ball rolling
until there is enough critical mass of complaint.

Right now I have traded  more than 1/2 of my btc for eth (and some etc), since that is a logical path
for a BTC holder to solve the delay and expense problem. I'm guessing eth will continue to gain market share
from btc, and it could run up quite a bit more before it is done. They also have a good mass of marketing/hype going.
I'm about 25% cash, and I have software keeping a very close eye on the fear/greed price dynamic. I'll be happy
to jump ship when the mood changes or the next piece of disaster-news pops up.

If I could find cheap long-term puts, out of the money LEAPs for btc, I'd be buying some.