Dude , Congrats mate ! That ' s awesome that you ' re getting married , and I wish you the best of luck ! <| sep |> Still won ' t talk to him . I mean , honestly . <| sep |> People seem to still fundamentally misunderstand why the mempool fills not Lopp but many commentors here . Look at the tx per sec rate ftps 01091 tfeeblkavg 01031 Note the steady growth . Note the ebbs and flows mondaytuesday peaks . Now if we have 6 blocks per hour and an avg tx size of 510 bytes what can we handle ? 995 , 000 bytes available for tx every ten min 510 1950 tx per block . 1950 600 seconds 3 . 25 tx per second . What would happen if the tx rate managed to edge above this for most of 24 hours , with an average tx rate at 3 . 60 txps and rarely dipped below 3 . 25 txps ? 3 . 60 600 2160 tx rate times # sec between blocks 2160 1950 210 # tx that cannot be added to next block 210 144 30 , 240 tx that couldn ' t be added to next block times # blocks in 24 hour span So very quickly , a tiny increase in the txper sec rate for any sustained amount of time will cause the mempool to grow for every tx beyond this 3 . 25 per sec mark and that is how you can get 30 , 000 or more tx in the mempool through organic growth . I ' d gladly bet a million satoshi this ' ll happen again around 1129 , 126 , 1213 , or 1220 . The dead giveaway that it isn ' t spam that it doesn ' t matter is that these are not low fee txs . The fee rate per tx has steadily risen . Even if it were expensive spam , it would only take like 15 tx per minute to make enough of a difference to fill up the mempool like this . That ' s such an insignificant amount of tx that it doesnt really matter if it were spam , it could just as easily be organic , or a few hours in a row where we average 5 . 5 blocks mined instead of 6 . Put another way If you are in a swimming pool and your mouth is two feet above the water or two inches above the water what difference does it make in your ability to breath ? None . If your mouth were two inches below the water or two feet below the water , what difference would this distance make in your ability to breath ? None . You breathe fine at a depth of 5 feet , and drown at a depth of 5 feet . We ' ve spent every tuesdaywednesday inches around this point all year . You just don ' t notice it unless you ' re one of the ones stuck drowning in the pool .