Have you seen any announcements from merchants, businesses, exchanges regarding downtime due to congestion? Probably not, because the spam-prevention mechanism

Have you seen any announcements from merchants, businesses, exchanges regarding downtime due to congestion? Probably not, because the spam-prevention mechanism built into Bitcoin by Satoshi themselves is working as intended. On the flipside, you have Ethereum with more or less unbounded block sizes having issues with Cryptokitties congesting the entire network. Numerous entities using Ethereum are unable to do business due to the equivalent of Beanie Babies clogging the network [0][1]. [0] https://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-cryptokitties-blockchain-deluge-sparks-ico-delay/ https://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-cryptokitties-blockchain-... [1] https://twitter.com/myetherwallet/status/874285733707526145 https://twitter.com/myetherwallet/status/874285733707526145