I wish all Bitcoin h0lders could earn from network transactions and fees to be honest. Miners and big whales are the ones that benefit most from holding Bitcoin. Can you imagine if there was this idea that if we held Bitcoin we would earn a portion of the network transactions we would all benefit from the fees. So many new holders would invest in Bitcoin, but of course Bitcoin now has lost it's currency for the people feel.
it already exists and it is called Proof of Stake and it is a flawed way of distributing coins in my opinion because it is basically saying the rich should get richer and do that by performing nothing. basically sitting around and increasing their wealth.
with bitcoin and it s Proof of Work they have to invest and work to get paid! that is a much better design.
I think without the updates the fees would have just killed off bitcoin. Especially when you are paying $60 dollars to send a dollar which is how bad it got at some points in summer. This is a very interesting perspective I have to admit. Wasn't satoshi original idea to have bitcoin as a means of payment though?
yes but you can never prevent attackers from attacking you. it is like owning a website and getting DDoS'ed. you can't prevent people from DDoSing you, all you can do is fight it. and fighting spam attacks against bitcoin (which caused the huge fee rise) is done by having a limited block size and a fee market.
it is a war, no matter what you do, they will find a way to attack you. so you always need to continue fighting.