Mempool is increasing about 100kb every 4-12 seconds it seems. Good job you guys. Well played.
People really need to stop doing this. Obviously the plan from Coinwallet.eu is working out. It looks like they had a backup plan if problems (e.g. legal pressures) came up. I doubt that someone figured out something devious such as this so quickly.
People really need to stop it. Most of the recent private keys contained around $4 each and it is not worth anyone's time. You are suffocating the network! It is only becoming worse.

Not really if you look at normal transactions like this one
https://blockchain.info/tx/0cb1562aa7f6d599a81ced96c181194028ce14b7f8d55d0fdeccb872813f43ea are getting thru fine that particular one took 3 min to confirm. Its only the ones that pertain to this "giveaway" that are filling up the mempool and creating the backlog.
This transaction looks like maybe someone trying to get some of the giveaway coins.
https://blockchain.info/tx/a2eba2a816aa90bd8e0b117ad6741fdbc8f4d48c406e52c9176f29216544a800Small dust transactions will take a LONG time to confirm in this environment but normal transactions will confirm as normal.