Empty mempool.... Starting to feel bad for it!.... Feels like a new kid on the playground without any friends to play with!...
not sure what to make of it.. 40+ millions wallets and only 1000 or so transactions... Is Layer 2 - Lightning Network working?

One thing is for sure... Hash rate will jump 6% higher in 18 hours!
Which is in fact great. Ordinals and other retarded stuff (inscriptions or whatever they're called) are gone finally. It basically means Bitcoin is turning into store of value not some kind of dick pic or fart sound storage. You have to understand one thing: it's not the number of transactions in the mempool that's driving Bitcoin price up.