Not only is it not a bad thing, it’s a highly positive thing. Bitcoin will always only be capable of providing final settlement assurances. This is a great motivator for businesses and individuals to build out lightning and other layer 2 payments. High fees = High usage 👍 = High security 👍
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It’s only a motivator to avoid the thing that is bad. The high fees.
High fees are bad and fee surges are bad.
Preferably the infrastructure would quickly scale to arbitrage the demand, but this isn’t the case yet.
High fees are good and are absolutely necessary under a Bitcoin standard. It’s all about perspective and time preference.