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?
Welcome back to the economy, and observe the foolishness we have been up to in your absence LOL
This is purely the result of the price. We have managed to run this thing up to the moon, but on a crap rocketship. The price at this level, according to Satoshi, should indicate that the protocol has scaled accordingly, and adoption along with it. This is a result of speculation, not adoption. So, programmatically we have not truly fixed the fee situation (the congestion situation

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And the confirmation times suck now too

Think of BTC as a utility token. Fees are based off of price, and price set by demand. Demand should derive from the actually usefulness of the coin in this case; what has changed so much about BTC recently, usefulness wise, to justify this price?