as regards the high fees at present, I thought the idea of bitcoin was to use in place of dollar(whatever).
How can I buy something for 10 dollars and pay more than the value of the transaction in costs, people will not stand for it.
Something has to alter, and very fast, people once bitten will shy away.
In another thread people are saying wait, the fees will come down, do they really think so?
Once miners get used to high fees they will not give them up willingly.
The argument that the bitcoin value has gone up, so fees must go up is wrong, sending 10 dollars worth of bitcoin is sending 10 dollars worth of bitcoin, whether the value of 1 bitcoin is 200 or 20000.