The points in the OP are quite clear cut for a hypothetical. As isolated variables there's a perfect correlation between price and fee value.
Hypothetical stuff stops being hypothetical once you try to defend it with data.
Then it's either true or false. In this case false.
If it were true now we would still be experiencing 5$ average fee, and what a surprise, we don't!
The correlation is also proven to exist in bitcoin's real-world usage as I showed charting years of data.
Unlike you, I'm showing you clear graphs where the fees are not following the price and moving in opposite directions.
You paint a line and you think you've discovered Sicily
So no need to keep trolling this thread dear stormpix.
Nope, what you think is trolling is the reality , just because you don't like that your one-line theory is going in smoke, that doesn't make my posts trolling material.
So, with no trolling, I will give you something to think over, since it's obvious as per the images posted above fees are not related to the price in the last 6 months, do you want to hear something that is indeed related?
Holly cow...and pig..and chicken...and wabbit!
Those things match! So, if the mempool goes up, so does the average fee. Eureka!!! Did you know that?
But, what could have caused the mempool to go up?
Maybe,maybe?
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/confirmationtime-btc-sma7.html#3mOh, the block time spiked because the retarget was to slow after the halving, the hashpower dropped, fewer blocks were mined, the capacity decreased, the offer and demand kicked in, fees went up...although the price didn't budge?
Want to test my theory? Let's see how fees will evolve in the next two weeks, the ones starting on the 15 and 22.
If the price will keep in the same 9500-10 000 range or even go down, are you ok with the fees going actually up?