I don't find any of the 4 answers suitable for me. Maybe the closest to what I think is that it should be cleared quicker, but that's not going to happen as long as a lot of people keep spamming the mempool with ordinals. It's not so much a question of speed of clearance as of people willing to pay ever increasing fees for something that is not what the Bitcoin blockchain was originally intended for.

In the last month or so there were still a lot of transactions in the mempool but the fees went down. I don't know if it's back from the August vacations that the spammers are back to work, so to speak.

It is due to the Bitcoin Ordinals and most of these transactions are dust transactions, I would approach and If any Bitcoin Core Developer is here, please try to prioritize less for these Dust transactions as they are blocking the way for other people who really want to use Bitcoin Network for something important, like paying for something with Bitcoin etc. These Ordinals guys need to go somewhere else, BTC Network isn't made for these things.

Haha, dear seniors we had discussed it a lot of times and it seems like they don't listen up to us, these ordinary guys are deaf and blind whenever we say please go somewhere else, to control the situation don't eh control the network there is a possible solution for which everyone will listen up haha because as they aren't listening up to us from a long time need to be hard with the words actions so best solution is, Satoshi needs to announce that "get out of my network".

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Besides that Op I think for now things are going smoothly, a bit of delay still at least I'm okay with it, Why do people just spam the meme pool, There should be a priority-based meme pool, but the efficient implementation for that is also not possible.

High usage of the Bitcoin network can be seen as both positive and negative, depending on the context and perspective.

Positive Aspects: High transaction volume can show growing adoption and use of Bitcoin as a means of transferring value and conducting financial transactions. This is showing increased interest and utility in the cryptocurrency.

Negative Aspects: On the downside, a congested mempool with high transaction fees can hinder small-value and everyday transactions, making Bitcoin less practical for microtransactions. It can also lead to slower confirmation times for transactions, which might not be ideal for time-sensitive payments.

I would say anything less than 15sat/vB is considered low fee and if we're able to reach record transactions at a low fee, it's a win in my eyes.

The actual reason why the network is congested was posted by DdmrDdmr,

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High usage means more people are using but it's not the case, it's just the spam attack by the BRC-20 tokens which means its temporary and definitely affects the people by forcing them to pay more on the fee.

As I said it is a temporary attack, sooner or later we can expect the spam attack to vanish over time.

That does look good as it indicates that there are more transactions and demand is increasing.

I also prefer that but most likely happy to see if it will be back to 1 sat/byte. I was able to do a transaction back then and I was 1 sat/vb short with the fee that I've paid and it took a very long time before it was able to get confirmed by a miner. That sucks and I don't want that to happen again to me. Currently, the fees have gone up to 16 sat/vb - 23 sat/vb and this is quite high already and likely that it won't be back a bit anymore. If your transactions are urgent and needed to be done and needs confirmation as soon as possible, pay the priority fee if you don't want headache.

I highly doubt it counts as a positive when the mempool is being spammed with the transactions that is clogging it.

Increased interest will be indicated by an increase in regular day to day transactions being made on the network and not short busts or spike in unconfirmed transactions.

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No, this is not how Bitcoin was designed to work. Damn ordinals/inscriptions spammers are back! Legit transactions (coins transferred from one wallet to another for financial purposes) make up only a tiny % of total transactions, so there is a huge space to grow (but only if spam transactions are eliminated).

As another user said, legitimate transactions make up a very small percentage of total transactions. Inscriptions/ordinals are definitely the cause...however, this isn't a bad thing for Bitcoin. New technology must always be challenged in order to improve and succeed...If Bitcoin can scale to be able to easily manage inscription/ordinal overflow, then real scalability for business use cases will be much higher.