This is like asking everyone in a city not to use a toll road . Maybe you think toll roads suck I sure do and maybe you want to see a toll road replaced with a simple cheap and free road . In theory if everyone decided not to use the toll road and dealt with a little more traffic , they ' d be forced to make it cheaper or altogether free . But in reality , there will always be some impatient folks willing to pay more to get there first . They don ' t care about the macro scale , they are selfcentered and focused on the microscale , or unaware of the implications . The fee market works the same way . There will always be impatient people willing to pay more to get their transactions confirmed sooner . I wouldn ' t blame the miners for being greedy either . They are expected to operate in a trustless a manner that will beget them the most possible profit . The rules of the game are currently engineered to favor a competitive fee market , and they ' re just abiding by them . The alternative school of thought says that miners can make more money if bitcoin becomes an ultrahigh volume medium of exchange . There are those that believe choking the number of eligible transactions and trying to squeeze every last penny out of the willing transactors is damaging to the network as a whole . Instead , it ' s a better idea to engineer for more transaction capacity so that more people can use bitcoin simultaneously and quickly .