The blocks are hardly maxed out ----- unless you are just making up shit in order to attempt to exaggerate some problem that is not even close to what the loud mouth FUDsters are attempting to portray.


Blocks floating around 65% at the moment... ... but they had  experienced some peaks approaching 90% in recent days (within the past week)

https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-block-size?timespan=60days&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=


Surely, there may be some more spam/ddos attacks on the bitcoin network in the coming days that could return bitcoin transactions to peaking at 90% or possibly more, but so far, the blockchain seems to have been handling such attacks pretty well (and I have seen pretty decent descriptions of apparent attacks that may also largely be undermined once seg wit is implemented in the coming months), and even in current times, bitcoin transactions have been going through in reasonable times given the value transferred and the potential for various kinds of self-directed control over 24/7 transactions.. without middlemen (banks taking out a cut)..

Bitcoin transaction fees still remain low as fuck and can be as little as .0001BTC per kilobyte or even lower and transfer a lot of value in a relatively short period of time and be finalized in less than 24 hours (more frequently less than an hour but sometimes a bit longer time frame).


There can be a bit of a variance in the median transaction time with small fees, but surely, median transaction times seem fairly reasonable too... getting 1st confirmations largely within 9 to 12 minutes (and would go through completely relatively quickly after the first confirmation has taken place - I think 3 confirmations are currently required to have the coins available to the recipient - used to be 6 confirmations, no?)

https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time?timespan=60days&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=


In sum, bitcoin is looking relatively healthy and the price seems to be decently moving away from the most recent $382 bottom, causing some comfort that another short term bottom has been visited and we will be moving upwards, again.. No?  At this point, I put the odds of upward price movement (of maybe a 5 % adjustment) to be a bit greater than downward movement.. maybe 57% to 43%...