I also find it very troubling because the price of BTC is already very high. When people trade very little, they can only buy a small part, but they have to pay very expensive transaction fees. This is unreasonable.
I understand where you coming from mate, and don't worry you are not the only one seeing this kind of issues. The fees are really killing us all, specially small and casual traders like you and me. That's why I give up trading like 6 months ago, but do seldom trading from time to time specially the peak of bitcoins. Was quite surprise that I have to pay high fees just to transfer my small profit.
I have like 200 $ in bitcoin on ANX. I wanted to transfer that to Binance exhange and I saw that if I wanted to I could only send like 140. Is the transaction fee really 60$ to send coin on bitcoin now? Or this is something ANX is doing? I can't see how that will pass as acceptable. Might as well use bank transfers, cheaper!
That's a total hold up mate. $200 is way too much. I think you need to get back at them and check why the fee's is too high. I'm not paying $60 if I were you. On the other hand, I understand you that hard aches, but bank transfers? I don't think so. Bitcoin is still a better alternative, I think its better if you would just wait till the mempool congestion will go down a little. But don't you worry, I think with all the testing on LN, it could be implemented next year and all this high tx and slow confirmations will be a thing of the past.
