> USD/BTC market seems to agree They rallied back because of BIP 91 being locked in leading for SegWit activation later. Nothing to do with 2x increase at the

> USD/BTC market seems to agree They rallied back because of BIP 91 being locked in leading for SegWit activation later. Nothing to do with 2x increase at the moment. > immediate scaling problem. This was spam tx likely from miners who insist on bigger blocks. The backlogs have been reduced now. https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-count?timespan=1year https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-count?timespan=1year > half the size It's not compressable. Why would they not compress if it was possible already? Block size increase is not engineering, it's giving up on thinking as it drags disk space and bandwidth with the increase and not solving a thing for the future.