the average fee was just a fraction of a cent back in Satoshi’s and Hanyecz’s days, but now that Bitcoin’s price has risen and there’s more interest in Bitcoin, the fee tends to hover between 50¢ and $1.[210] That’s not terrible, especially if you’re trying to move thousands of dollars. But if you’re trying to send a dollar to a friend, like Satoshi envisioned, you definitely do not want to pay fees that high, especially when apps like Venmo let you send money for free.
Satoshi thought that a primary use case for bitcoin was micro payments, yet the transaction fees are too high for that.
Satoshi can be wrong after all!
