A base fee of a few sats isn't material to significant amounts of money, only to *insignificant* amounts

Even at $1M USD, a 100 sats practical minimum send is still only a dollar. If you need to compare Bitcoin to the transactional cost of nickels and dimes you've lost the plot. 

justin_shocknet

Sending significant amount of real money is the best way to introduce new people and demonstrate how things work. And besides you can do that with fiat cash. I don't want fiat cash to have advantages over bitcoin (or maybe that's impossible).

BallLightning

lightning

Micropatments with base fees in path

Base fees are rational and should be expected, just because lightning is capable of sending super small payments doesn't mean it's economical, there's a real world cost to each HTLC

Apps/wallets should really discourage users from sending <100 sats, too much trash out there is encouraging single digit sats and that confuses uneducated users. Wallets should warn users when the cost of a send cost exceeds a sane percentage, parameters for this already exist in LND.