Quote from: DannyHamilton on Today at 03:49:48 AM

Good bye (and good riddance).
Bitcoin scales just fine. Nobody is forcing you to use it, and we really don't care if you leave. There is no need to announce it.

This doesn't solve the problem, nor does it help Newbies. Bitcoin scaling is bad, high fees are bad. At the end of 2017, fees reached up to 1000 sat/byte, right before the Bitcoin price started plummeting.
I can no longer send someone $10 worth of Bitcoin to try it, and I consider that a serious shortcoming.

Quote from: GreatArkansas on Today at 06:19:21 AM

For OP, why not use the lightning network? Agree with mk4, layer 2 soon will be the solution.

I use LN whenever it's accepted, but opening and closing channels also costs on-chain fees. I'm mostly using BlueWallet (custodial LN) and Phoenix Wallet (non-custodial LN) now, and both of them cover the cost of opening channels while charging only a small amount. I don't think that business model is sustainable when fees go up, and I don't want to use LN when opening and closing a channel costs $50.

Quote from: Sithara007 on Today at 06:41:03 AM

The fee in terms of Satoshis is also going up, since the user base is expanding.

Bitcoin can't handle more users as long as it can't handle more transactions. All those people "trading" Bitcoin on exchanges without withdrawing to their own wallet aren't real Bitcoin users in my book.

Back in 2017 I said as a user I don't care how Bitcoin scales, as long as it does it. Segwit helpt a bit, but I think the Bitcoin price drop had a larger effect. Either way, scaling takes far too long. I'm now using shitForks for some small payments. I'd love to use Bitcoin for it, but it's not possible.
But as long as exchanges use bad practice and pay thousands of dollars on consolidation fees, block space keeps getting wasted.