I haven't sent btc in a while. Back when i sent btc, fees were less than 50 cents. Maybe 3 dollars? I went and tried to send less than 30 dollars of btc... fees show up as 12 dollars on electrum and thats with the lowest possible fee where i make it send within 25 blocks. Now if you want to send under 1 dollar, it cost 12 dollars. When is this issue getting fixed? Who in their right mind would send btc for small amounts when even the fee is that much? Its like paying 12 dollars for something you want to buy that is 1 dollar?
There are two major reasons involved in such upsurging fees. One is the price of bitcoin which is increasing everyday so every satoshi is becoming more and more valuable. Second major reason is mass adoption. As more and more people are coming over the network the traffic is increasing so the fees is increasing for miners to keep track of such transactions.