It's been revealed before that bitcoin doesn't really do micropayments.. Not completely sure why. Block reward is also still far larger than transaction rewards, yet miners still enforce pretty large transaction fees.
It's particularly interesting given the extreme fractionizability of the btc. One would expect transactions in the extremely small range, especially as the precision can be increased even further if btc increases in value.
It is designed to support micropayments, but with the inefficient blockchain, the implementation does not support them.
