If i'm not wrong,there were almost 300k unconfirmed transactions during christmas making it very difficult to even sell bitcoins to enjoy the high price.Such a situation even made steem to get back from accepting bitcoin payments.
But now,today there were only 10,000 unconfirmed transactions.
https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions
In the end of December everything was overloaded, it was boom of buying and selling, no it is going its normal way.