I have been using and learning as much as possible about bitcoin over the last couple years and there is one very big elephant in the room.. It is controlled - just not by governments or banks or so we think... the miners and exchanges are not really all that regulated, so their greed will get the better of BTC in the end. I tried moving my BTC from my electrum wallet to an exchange 12 hours ago...still waiting for confirmation because I did not pay enough of a fee... sound familiar??!
This is what you should have expected
Transaction fees are no longer low. In fact, if you are transacting small amounts, the fees may be even higher in dollar terms than what you would pay if you tried to transfer the same amount via a regular bank (using fiat). In this aspect, Bitcoin becomes sort of elitist asset (like Berkshire Hathaway stock which is worth over 250k dollars per share). I don't really know if this bodes good or bad for Bitcoin in the long run, but microtransactions using it are basically done with today