Quote from: ivanst776 on November 26, 2016, 12:43:40 PM

250k daily is really a huge amount even though bitcoin is used worldwide

No. 250k is very small (albeit *big* for something new like Bitcoin). In comparison, Visa does 2000 TPS on average which is over 150 Million transactions per day.

Quote from: ivanst776 on November 26, 2016, 12:43:40 PM

but I see now that the trending of making new transaction is huge and within a few seconds there are lots of transaction made (based on blockchain.info)

A lot of factors suggest that it was a spam attack (actually a preparatory one; the second wave will come soon).