The price of a ticket doesn ' t change after you booked it . Unlike a bitcoin transaction which you send thinking it has enough fee to be included in a reasonable amount of time only to find that the rate of block discovery slows down at that time , transactions back up and your transaction gets gazumped . Whereas , with sufficient capacity on the network backlogs don ' t occur and you have more confidence about when your transaction will go through . Sufficient capacity can be achieved in two non mutually exclusive means raising the blocksize and miners setting fee policy for transactions they are willing to process if they set a minimum fee such that transactions that want immediate settlement are reduced then those that are willing to wait can set a lower fee . Everything then happens in a predictable manner which is what many would expect from a payment network . Miners can adjust their fee policy periodically if they need to so that they keep the saturation rate of the network at a sweet spot which gives them most transactions for nicest fee without the network choking . This is similar to how hotels operate they aim for a certain occupancy rate if they are continuously overbooked then they are clearly not charging enough if they are underbooked , they need to drop their price and rates change depending on the season . What is so hard to understand about all this ? I make no claim about onchain scaling allowing billions to transact . Fact is , there aren ' t currently billions wanting to transact and bitcoin onchain could currently handle the load probably could for a few years to come . maybe longer so why are we settling for a chaotic network now . If all goes well with bitcoin by the time there are higher volumes there will be other innovations that will take some of the load off the chain . While LN and sidechains may be some , other ideas may arise as well . Why are we stuffing around early adopters who are just getting into bitcoin when there is no alternative yet and there is no volume yet ?