Quote from: rizzlarolla on October 26, 2016, 08:22:02 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on October 26, 2016, 06:26:58 PM

Quote from: skierchewing on October 26, 2016, 05:35:20 PM

If it is saturated, that's because people is using Bitcoin. Bitcoin wasn't intented to be instant, never. That's more a store of value. For one second transactions, use altcoins.

If it were actual organic usage that was causing the delays and the backlog, then it would be understandable that there is some kind of seeming emergency and something needs to be done in order to make it better.

This current and ongoing situation does not appear to be any kind of organic usage situation.

Accordingly, yesterday, about 24 hours ago, as I type, there was a sudden and unexplained spike in the transactions and ongoing jam.. A very similar thing happened last week, but it seemed to have been resolved in less than 12 hours. Anyhow, the current blockages appear more as if they are attempts at sabotage in order to cause impressions of some kind of emergency situation that does not in reality exist, except for the purposeful, malicious and currently ongoing attack/sabotage.

"there was a sudden and unexplained spike". duh... Like no one want to use bitcoin.
"A very similar thing happened last week," Oh, so this sudden and unexplained spike is not such a surprise.

"the current blockages appear more as if they are attempts at sabotage in order to cause impressions of some kind of emergency situation that does not in reality exist" Mostly innocent free paying bitcoiners. 32,000 paying 40sat/byte or MORE at time of writing.

It cant be happening man! Pull ya head out of the sand.

Edit - 50 40 sat/byte

I would call it skepticism.

There has been a considerable amount of misinformation and disinformation coming from the big blocker camp, and I have also read about spam attacks.

It does not look like organic growth to me, as many big blocker folks seem to be wanting to argue.

In other words, if this happens to be real, then the crying of wolf by many big blockers has undermined the credibility of such assertions and I am not going to buy into those claims without further and better evidence.

Here's the 1 week:

https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-size?timespan=1week

You can also zoom out to the 1 month. Those depictions of the mempool backlog does not look organic to me, no matter how much you attempt to assert that it is.

Are you also arguing that an immediate increase to 2mb would likely resolve the issue? with a gun to the head of those folks with transactions pending?