Very nice to wake up to battle for $5,000. Also very nice to see memory pool calming down.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/b9ta0i/mempool_emptying_fast_down_to_7000_from_over/

"A big reason for this back log is because a shitccoin called VBK (aka Veriblock)is spamming the Bitcoin blockchain to anchor in and leach off the security of Bitcoin's PoW with their token

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3PyLUlXsAABrTn.png

They are spending 6-8 BTc a day paying BTC miners tx fees to do this, thus are losing money but they are choosing to do so because of short term speculation on their launch before they hit exchanges, thus it is doubtful this will last"

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/unconfirmed-transactions

The exact reason we cant have unnecessary overly large blocks, were the coin everyone wants to unseat and take over.