In the beginning there were no transaction fees. Miners were happy to include your transactions because of the mining rewards alone. Plus there were just not en

In the beginning there were no transaction fees. Miners were happy to include your transactions because of the mining rewards alone. Plus there were just not enough transactions to charge a fee. It was cool to use Bitcoin in 2013 as a currency and sadly the number of useful things you could buy then are about the same as today. These days Bitcoin is too expensive and too slow to be used as actively used currency for every day transactions. Lighting Network is not looking too hot either.