I did spend 5 USD just to get my 40 usd from blockchain. It's still kinda cheep compared to other money transfer companeys
i would still use bitcoin.
It might be cheap for you but for those who living in 3rd country 5 dollars for a fee it's extremely expensive, it's not a problem if we send lot of bitcoins with that fee but for small transaction it is a problem. Well for now i think bitcoin isn't suited for small transaction.
confirmation is only 1 hour is fast so you have to add the amount of fee. if you don't want it there's customize option or you don't choose regular in form transactiekosten choose a lowers although it will take longer for the estimated confirmation. maybe for transactions it would be better to choose altcoin like eth or doge and you have to use multi wallet like coinbase to send eth.
Exactly, personally i'm using dogecoin for trading activity, sending my bitcoin from bittrex to poloniex or vice versa in order to avoid the bitcoin fee, it only costs 2 doges on bittrex and 5 doges on poloniex which is exteremly cheap. The problem is this method only works on exchanger or wallet which support multicurrency.