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
Is this due to the beginning of the functioning of the lightning network in the bitcoin network? Transactions have become very fast, this should be reflected in the price of bitcoins.