No, it won't as we have seen such amount of congestion in the past. The transaction fee is a concern, that is agreed in an age where congestion is normal. The reason being the devlopers wanted a challenge, ultimately they found a way to get the network spammed by Ordinals.

The option you have now is to start learning about BTCLN. If you want to know more then search Google by typing Bitcoin lightning network as it is the only solution to these high transaction fees.

The number is going to definitly get above $500k very soon, with the high rate of transaction fees, personally speaking I have opted not to make a transaction recently because of the high transaction fee.

Many people with their own opinion and thoughts about what's the reason for the high transaction fee but with the way this situation has lasted I wonder if there would be any solution in view.

Lightning network is not really an alternative at the moment because opening and closing channels still need on-chain transactions, and its complicated for an average Joe.

We have enough threads in bitcointalk itself

1. Basics of the Lightning Network
2. The Lightning Network FAQ
3. Electrum Lightning Network walkthrough

It is already affecting the use of Bitcoin because most people prefer to use stablecoins and altcoins for transactions to avoid this high fees. Like you said if the price continues this way Bitcoin might become a currency for only the rich. It might be used for only Investment, while altcoins will become more attractive for daily transactions.


This problem has lasted longer than the past congestion I have ever experienced. OG Bitcoiners like Luke Dashjr have proposed some way to permanently block BRC-20 tokens from the network but it seems there might be no solution in sight because the clamor for Bitcoin Ordinals is still growing every day. It will be difficult to end since some groups of persons are benefiting from it. The fee is becoming unbearable and it is affecting Bitcoin transactions negatively.

I really hope bitcoin doesn't become something only the rich can afford (fees).  Also I just don't see most people having the time to learn bitcoin.  

And in the 500k unconfirmed transactions, there are my transactions which have not been confirmed until now even though it has been going on for almost 2 days. It was quite annoying to see how the fees increased quite quickly and I had already made a transaction and was lazy enough to bump the transaction.
This should be a concern for Bitcoin dev developers, because as the network becomes increasingly congested and there is no follow-up from developers to ban Ordinal, this will have an effect on users who want to make transactions but cannot because of unreasonable fees, and if it continues maybe it will hinder the adoption of bitcoin in the future.

This has become a hot topic of conversation, not only on forums but at my place several friends have complained about high fees.

Imo it is quite reasonable that high fees make people reluctant to spend more than they would have to pay for a small transaction. Then for hodlers this further strengthens them not to sell their bitcoins. It's better to just use another payment method, because no matter what, up to now there is no solution to overcome the transaction congestion that has occurred. There needs to be some new ideas that need to be offered to miners but we haven't seen them yet. Another large-scale impact may be its adoption to become a global payment method making bitcoin currently increasingly avoided.

Of course, it does affect people making small transactions, I would say it even affects people having big pockets, why would any wanna pay unnecessary fee? Regarding, banning brc20 tokens, I feel like it's running away from the problem (which is scalling issue) than solving it. I have said that before as well.

We have seen congestion problems on Ethereum too due to use of certain dapps, did it ban those dapps? No. Solutions appeared in form of L2s. If Bitcoin devs bans the ordinals, I'd say it'll be pathetic, and it'll deserve to get dethroned from it's position as top cryptocurrency.

On this forum, LN often gets preached as a solution, but no one is willing to use it.

I feel like the number of topics about this are exceeding 500k too.   

Do people not consider simply contributing to one of the existing threads, rather than keep making new ones?  It's not like they're hard to find. 

Yes, the network is busy.  Yes, there's some controversy on what to do about it.  No, "banning" stuff is not going to be the way forward, unless you want to branch off to your own network, in which case, have fun with that.

I saw this too, it really is quite complicated if you want to make a low value transaction using the main network.

I just want to see what this will be like when we are in the euphoric phase of the market, with Bitcoin at a new ATH, it will all be very insane, developers need to quickly resolve this issue of these useless tokens on the network otherwise it will be impossible to use.