Yes. Lightning is off chain though. All those tx's are still later put on chain by channel and node operators, to my understanding.
On chain BTC is slow, with unpredictable block times, (the ten mins between blocks is not a guarantee. Sometimes there are three blocks in ten mins, I've seen it numerous times. But also, there are times where you will go close to an hour without a block and that's where the issue lies.) Unstable fee sizing, and no guarantee of when your tx will be confirmed. These are all issues, and keeps people away from Bitcoin if you want the truth. If on chain BTC would adapt it's Blockchain to catch up with the rest of the crypto world, it would truly be king/queen. But it fails to do so.
And don't get me wrong, I LOVE LIGHTNING and have been a daily user of lightning for almost three years now. LN is IMO what is going to keep Bitcoin relevant and from being truly left behind in the crypto world. Remember though, every king/queen/monarchy in our worlds history has fallen at some point. It's only a matter of when.
Even with the reply you got, you still didn't get it?
Tx fees as pure market demand. You cannot expect something with the same offer (block size limit) and with high demand, to be cheap or nearly free. The speed is also a result of the same factors. Either you have it decentralized and things take longer at peak demand times, or you centralize in favour of speed.
Either way, at scale base chain will never be a good layer for small size transactions. Use LN for that.
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Bitcoin isn't designed to have 10 minutes between each and every block without fail. Its designed to keep the AVERAGE time between blocks to 10 minutes via difficulty adjustments. That is besides the point.
The goal of bitcoin isn't to be the king/queen of "crypto". Its goal is to be a digital, hard money alternative to the fiat system. Hard forking the timechain just to beat out shitcoins in the crypto casino is short term thinking and would compromise the integrity of Bitcoin.
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Pick 2
Cheap - Fast - Secure
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