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2. So your argument is that the higher the BTC price, miners will include tx with lower fees? Well, what happened with the last bull-run (Dec 2017 - Jan 2018)? Did you see fees increase or decrease?
PS: Anyone care to explain/answer my question will get merit(s). But only for good quality answer of course.
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The fees increased, but I think that was not because the price of Bitcoin increased, but rather because people were trading like crazy during those days (400,000 transactions per day, $20 bln daily trading volume), and traders started including higher and higher fees in order to not wait hours or even days until their transaction was confirmed. If you want to transfer over $10,000 in BTC, $30 fee doesn't seem that big. Looking at the daily trading volume of the time, there could be hundreds of thousands of such transactions during one day. Since miners try to maximize the amount of fee income from the txs they include in their blocks, txs with lower fees were stuck in mempool, because there were always enough txs with higher fees.