Quote from: John Langut on February 24, 2018, 09:38:40 PM

Today I came across another article damning the Bitcoin fees titled "Is Bitcoin getting better, and for five year-olds?"

What ticks me off about that is we just had news earlier this week about SegWit adoption across exchanges and more and more people adding Lightning network nodes. Clearly Bitcoin is still making progress but for some reason those authors are giving up on it.

Although I didn't read the article, because you forgot to post the link, I would say that is probably a fud article or at least an attempt to keep people uninformed (at least if it's a recent one). Fees can get a lot lower of course, but it's just stupid to complain about the fees right now, because they are very low right now, specially if we compare them to where they were a few months back. We now have 7681 Unconfirmed Transactions (by the time of this post), so the pool is practically empty, meaning that fees should be low.

With segwit adoption, we will get even better, so complaining about fees doesn't make any sense right now.