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
It shows that now people are started to hold bitcoins so it is good news and the price will increase if they continue to hold.Yeah at the time of Christmas there were nearly 300K unconfirmed transactions and the fee for a single transaction is get into $100 for a simple transaction too.But the bitcoin community needs to implement the lightning network as soon as possible because there will be traffic again if the price bumps so lightning network is the permanent solution to clear the number of unconfirmed transactions.Thee fee is very very cheap now only fraction in a dollar that is a good thing.