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Maybe the SW/BU Bitcoin Civil War is starting to have a negative effect.
1. 182,000 unconfirmed transactions (highest I have ever seen in my casual monitoring at:
https://blockchain.info/new-transactions)
Segwit would have freed some space in a block it was always in the miner's hands. There is also BU, which is supposedly what the miners really want. But where is it? Why are the miners not doing the hard fork?
2. BTC down over $100 in one day.
That is still ok by Bitcoin's standards. Down by $1000 in 1 day is something to worry about.
I sure wish the Miner Wankers and the Developer Wankers would get together and SOLVE the scaling problem(s). Else they may damage the Bitcoin Ecosystem and discourage newbies from joining the community.
It is more in the hands of the miners. The developers, both Core and BU, release code and you take it or you leave it.
BTC to $5000 if/when they resolve all of this (credit to jonald_fyookball for that prediction, and I would agree with that number).
That is very arguable.