You have just answered to yourself in there, the high number of unconfirmed transactions is just making the fees go high than they are right now.
Tell me, are you going to send money to a guy or just buy stuff with a fee of $42,5? I guess that you would never do that, the same as me.
This is really preocupant, that is why i am so angry about this situation.
It will get fixed soon, but the problem is when, if it doesn't get fixed as soon as possible a lot of people are going to lose interest on bitcoin.
Today I checked into
https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions to see that the unconfirmed transactions has doubled to 285,000+ as I write this post.
As well as fees now being about $42.50 to send a transaction from my wallet.
How do you guys feel that this is going to affect bitcoin prices?