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?
Exactly my dilemma at this moment. When I tried sending 5$ but the fee is 14$. I don't understand why there's a lot of hardforks going on but this problem has not been addressed. And one more thing, bitcoin transaction takes longer than usual and costs so much. It's not practical using btc for transactions anymore.