Over the past few days, bitcoin transaction fees have dropped to around $1 for median-size payments, even though the bitcoin mempool size has remained relatively high at above 120 million bytes.
https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-transaction-fees-are-dropping-to-1-can-this-be-sustained-in-long-term/
That's good news. Hopefully the lightning network will soon make high fees and long transaction times a thing of the past. Atomic swaps would be good as well.
No doubt! :)