Unfortunately, about 15MB worth of transactions were sent a few hours ago at the 200-250 sats/byte range on the BTC chain. It is now down to 9MB on that range. You will need to wait a whole lot longer than an hour if you want your 44 cent transaction to go through at this point. I can't really call this "spam" since 200-250 sats per byte is a decent fee.

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