Quote from: BayAreaCoins on December 25, 2017, 08:37:28 PM

Something has to be changed because of this or we will see the trust/faith in Bitcoin Core drained in 2018.

Having the crypto sphere utilize Segwit for once will definitely help giving Bitcoin a boost, but the main K.O. shot has to come from Lightning Network. Segwit is all fine, but it won't do much other than taking a little bit of pressure off the network, which is why I am strongly hoping for LN to become fully operational before 2018, but that's something we can't be sure about unfortunately. I personally don't really have ever suffered from the higher fees, but this week I wanted to set up like twenty paper wallets containing a certain number of funds as present, but after thinking about the fees that are required for people to move these funds, I started to think that it perhaps isn't the right thing to give close friends and family a paper wallet with a certain number of funds. My plan was to load each paper wallet with 0.0025BTC, but that's slightly above the recent network fees, which is a bummer. I can't force anyone to hold these funds for the long term, because once given, they can do whatever they want with it.