Quote from: Findingnemo on Today at 05:03:48 PM

The actual reason why the network is congested was posted by DdmrDdmr,

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on Today at 08:16:34 AM

As per my Ordinals Dashboard (I’ve just updated it), block 806280 contains 7.292 Ordinals out of the 7.616 TX, occupying 91,6% of the block (see "Weight of Ordinals per Block" on the Dashboard). If you filter the said block on the "OrdinalsOrdinalTx List", you’ll see that they are all similar to this (*):
https://ordinals.com/inscription/d9d0920f37c1ba8688a43a4d01943132fe98319bb271e72c4011b7798caf3354i0

Ordinals are averaging between 9 and 12 sat/vB per day over the past week which have risen a fair share from the 6 to 7 sat/vB during august, and since they’ve been occupying and average of 40+% of the blocksize over the past few days (it had been in the 20%-30% range for some days previously), I figure this all sums up the current fees, still distant to those that were around some months ago, but still.

(*) BRC-20 json files. See: https://trustmachines.co/learn/what-is-brc-20-token-standard/

As I said it is a temporary attack, sooner or later we can expect the spam attack to vanish over time.

Ah, reading more about this - it has been going on for a while: https://forkast.news/bitcoins-mempool-congestion-ordinals-inscription/ I wonder how much its costing them to occupy 20-30% of the blocksize consistently. Might be a while before we get to pre-February levels.