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
some people in my community when asked if prefer to use bitcoin or ETH or other coins what they want to use to send transaction, a lot of people say for ETH in big transaction and doge for small transaction, i think they still afraid if must wait longer time when use bitcoin like in past