Feb 23, 2017 · 1 min read
No.
Blocks are filling up because Core has not lifted a 1MB limit that was put in place as a temporary measure to prevent spam and is now in place to prevent blocks from getting so astronomical that validating them will take an unworkable amount of time (even though current volume and growth indicates that won’t happen for years, during which we can solve the quadratic hashing problem).
The fees will provide the incentive for a workaround to that problem, LN, which you describe later on.
The blocks are filling up because miners aren’t allowed to include all the transactions they want.
