Something strange is happening, unusualy large number of transactions is not confirmed. Like the network is stuck. I agree that it would be good that community tries to do something about it but would realy this BoyCott BTC on 24 hours solve the problem? The aswer probably lies in the cause of this problem. Do we know exactly what it is?
The same thing happened over a year ago (namely, in July, 2015). There were also thousands of unconfirmed transactions stuck with almost empty blocks popping up on the blockchain now and then. I didn't hear a viable explanation of that event apart from that it was a test for "Bitcoin limits". Though it looked more like a collusion between miners demanding higher fees...
And people still continue to insist that there can be none
All that drama, its "just" 60-70k on my node, we hit 80k last month ~10/27. Bitcoin with 1 MB blocksize and no further additions like e.g. SegWit will be unable to handle the demand from time to time. Get ready to pay even higher fees or learn to be patient. (Bitcoin) Black Friday and Christmas are coming, this is just a hint at what will come soon
That may be a good pretext