Relevant information:
Default fees are proposed to be lowered in Bitcoin 0.18.0Basically, the minimum will drop from 1sat/vbyte to 0.2sat/vbyte.
0.18.0 is scheduled for release in March 2019, which assumes nothing delays the release. And it may take time for the full effects be felt on the network, as miners may still refuse transactions less than 1sat/vbyte for a while (until a large enough backlog of < 1sat/vbyte transactions develops, I should imagine). Maybe this time next year we could be celebrating even cheaper fees
