High transaction fees are not permanent. It happens mainly when ordinal inscriptions are used to spam the mempool. The price usually drops after the attack has subsided. But there are still other cheaper means of using Bitcoin during these periods of attacks. Yes, this temporal challenge might discourage people from using Bitcoin, but at this time when evil is increasing globally, security and privacy are more important.

I have to disagree, even the mempool is busy and you have to pay more than 200sat/vbyte, it doesn't reduce spam transactions by ordinals because as long as they can earn more than what they paid, they're willing to pay expensive fees.

Fortunately the hype has been ended, but as Bitcoin price is getting higher and higher, there would be a possibility this spam happen again in the next few months.

Expensive small transactions are one of the reasons Bitcoin cannot be widely accepted as a normal currency for everyday use.
There's no solution for this problem and there's no way for Bitcoin to become a normal currency.


"Prevent" is the wrong word here. High transaction fees can't prevent spam transactions. They can discourage spam transactions, but they cannot stop them. The Bitcoin blockchain has been clogged with spam transactions in the past and it might get stuck again in the future.
The whole problem is the limitation of the BTC blockchain. It simply cannot handle billions of transactions per second. This is the main problem, not the transaction fees. If the blockchain was capable of handling a huge amount of transactions per second, the transaction fees would've been way lower.

I see transaction fees as a problem only when the fees are high, other than that I don't see a problem. Transaction fees are mostly under a dollar or sometimes just above a dollar, which is way cheaper than the payment methods. I don't think there's any totally free payment method. The problem comes when the transaction fees of bitcoin become too high and even more expensive than the other payment methods. The problem with this is not only that you have to pay more to transfer your bitcoin, you might have to wait longer periods before confirmation which is not ideal.

Expecting to use bitcoin for free totally is not realistic to some extent because there has to be a fee, so the fee is okay, IMO, but it shouldn't be high. At least not higher than other payment methods. Thankfully, the fees are mostly ever high when there is network congestion, which doesn't happen often.

I think some of use remember when in August 2024, fees surged by almost 940% due to network congestion, making low-value transactions expensive to send and unpredictable. On the other side, these fees have been essential to maintain security and incentivize miners to verify transactions on the network. In the maturing Bitcoin ecosystem, we're seeing more and more efforts-like the Layer 2 solutions meant to lower fees and increase scalability, such as Lightning Network-which may reduce concerns over cost and usability.

For the solutions to avoid the spiking fee, we can use Layer 2 scaling solutions such as the Lightning Network for low-fee, off-chain Bitcoin transactions to reduce the fee and speed up the process. Pros might be that the fees are low, the settlement is faster, and it also improves scalability. Cons might be that these channels sometimes can be considerably less user-friendly and/or security trade-offs versus on-chain. Also, accessibility and reliability-encouraged through developments in the recent past like the growing adoption of products such as Strike and Wallet of Satoshi-continue to get better. Current updates are focused on enhancing liquidity and reducing channel failures in order to make the network robust.

Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin as a self-developing system capable of functioning without the direct participation of its Founder.

Financial motivation is one of the strongest motivations in our imperfect material world, so the greed and material interest of miners is what underlies the functioning of the Bitcoin blockchain.

Since the number of already mined Bitcoins is constantly increasing, and their total number is limited (21,000,000 coins), miners are interested in high fees. Bitcoin users, on the contrary, are interested in lower fees.

This contradiction, in my opinion, will lead to Bitcoin becoming an increasingly elite asset (analogous to family diamonds, which are owned only by the richest families with a lot of fiat money, real estate, stocks and other assets). In the future, in my opinion, owning a Bitcoin will confirm the high status of its owner.

High transaction fees is something we know isn't going to last too long, it even fluctuates at some point such that it's not always high, its even often low than it's high which obviously results from miners interest and some economic validation which has been gained from increased adoption over the years as compared to the early years of Bitcoin.

Currently the anticipation for a bull market is so much on the high side which will in turn mean some high demand levels and aswell affect price and transaction fees, putting all of this together gives a good submition to the price and transaction fees increase and like we know it doesn't happen all the time.

I don't know if my opinion is a problem.

Besides fee's. You wanna barter for every half hour of waiting time you cut of by paying extra for block time in an auction when you order your coffee.

You can charge the Tesla while you wait.

Everything in life has two sides and that is the negative and positive,never expect a complete good things in this area while the truth is we have surely a negative one .

But that does not mean we should only rely in the bad side because it has been proven for how many years now that Bitcoin is helpful to those who are in need of use and advantage .

So I guess this is not really debatable instead thos depend on your needs and belief .