Quote from: Charles-Tim on Today at 02:34:21 PM

Quote from: BitcoinGirl.Club on Today at 02:33:56 PM

Mempool congestion is super high now. I have never seen such congestion before. Even with a 600+ vMB is not enough to get the next block LOL

Cause?
My wild guess is Bitcoin Ordinals.

Yes.

But the mempool is slightly lower than 600 sat/vbyte for now

With block #840.000 there was also another novelty to add to the Ordinals case - Runes[1].

Quote from: Yamane_Keto on Today at 03:06:31 PM

The average block time is ~9.8 minutes, which means that we may need a longer time to return to normal fees.

Perhaps I misunderstood your comment but I wouldn't say that the average block time directly impacts the fees that are being broadcasted. Perhaps you were saying that there should be more discussing in increasing the mining time? I don't see how that would impact the fees in any meaningful way.

[1]https://rodarmor.com/blog/runes/