I'll be the first to admit I have no proof, I have been awake for like 3 days.. So I apologize for my shit posting rants and conspiracy theories. But when I look at records of the mempool it looks like someone is flipping a switch on and off. One day we'll have 100k transactions waiting for confirmation the very next day will have less then 1k. Someone is spamming the network and the Chines mining pools make for a great candidate. They are incentivised to spam the network to prop up transaction fees. They are even incentivised to back a crazy faction like BU and intentionally cause a contentious Hard-fork for no other reason then to sell off a new asset (the tens of thousands of BTU coins) and then go back to mining bitcoins and avoid all blame by pushing the blame on BU.  The Bitcoin Unlimited idiots probably don't even realize their just patsies.