Now that SegWit is activated let's watch how does it work with the transactions, and their fees. Hope it benefits BTC and it's users, so that the BTC can increase more in value.
SegWit makes sure that block sizes will decrease significantly in size, and from there it's assumed that the fees will go down significantly as well. I however would like to see it happen first, before I am going to believe it.
huh? it makes it possible for blocks to increase to 4MB at most (in the worst case scenario). that's a pretty significant
increase. by addressing transaction malleability (and therefore making a large scale lightning network possible) we can maybe prevent future block size increases from being necessary. but they won't be decreasing.
Large benefit now that SegWit has been activated, is that the implementation of the Lightning Network is now closer than it ever was. This will ultimately result in even lower fees.
i'm excited for LN. i'm a little worried about the logistics of transaction routing, but even a hub-and-spoke model would be useful, since it's all trustless. if we just took everyone's bitpay and coinbase transactions offchain and into payment channels, that would be a huge optimization right there.
