'Attack on Bitcoin’ Claims Circulate as Transaction Fees Climb Higher

From decrypt.co

The Bitcoin quadrant of Crypto Twitter was abuzz with concern on Sunday, as some users saw high transaction fees and a congested backlog of transactions as an attack on Bitcoin. There are currently over 469,000 transactions waiting to be confirmed in Bitcoin’s mempool as of this writing, according to mempool.space. Before transactions are added to Bitcoin’s blockchain, transactions are sent to the network’s mempool, where they wait to be selected by a Bitcoin miner and inserted into Bitcoin’s next block. Bitcoin transaction fees were also quite high, with high-priority transactions commanding a rate of 654 ... (full story)