No doubt how is satoshi think to make it becomes possible in the future as long as bitcoin to be the right answer for the micropayments. But facing the problem of bitcoin, especially a technical solution for the bitcoin itself. It needs to get fixed asap.
Looks bitcoin still being the best answer to be a micropayment method. We are still able to send a dollar through the bitcoin.
You can
send a dollar ... but how much are you going to receive? =)
Even worse: how much is it worth when you want to spend it?
Bob pays Alice $1, and pays $0.40 fee. Alice wants to buy something, and after another $0.40 fee the $1 is worth $0.60 only.
Bob's $1.40 turned into $0.60 purchasing power for Alice!
In its central position, the company can override the users, and the fees needed to support the company make micropayments impractical.
Satoshi Nakamoto, 2009
The irony is: this centralization is exactly what's happening to Bitcoin now!
if THEY stop spamming the network with spam transactions and stop filling the backlog with them in order to increase the fees
We don't live in a perfect world. Spam won't stop, just as email spam won't stop. It has been suggested in the past to stop email spam by charging a very small fee per email.
Luckily there is not a single party that can enforce that, due to the open nature of the protocol.
Nobody in their right mind would suggest paying $0.40 to send an email, but for Bitcoin this has become reality.
What Bitcoin needs is a way to function with or without transaction spam.