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> no intention of solving the problem.

I was starting to grow pretty concerned but clearly segwit and LN have made enough progress that fees have dropped to ~10sat/byte. [1] That is dirt cheap.

[1] https://bitcoinfees.earn.com




i don't think LN has had a chance to make any impact yet and segwit's adoption could be better though it does help.

main reason for the drop imo is the end of the hype cycle: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin

Edit: typo


Fair enough, you may be right.




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