The news was talking about South Korea as the reason this year.
Nothing to do with fees going as high as $55 then or USDT all being fake and used to pump Bitcoin price
up then ?
Yeah I know lightning network will save us but have you seen the map https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/
This is not Bob sending coins to Alice, this is banking hubs starting to get connected and are not ready
yet for fee paying customers quite yet
"South Korea"
and it will be Kim from North Korea next week