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The Bitcoin network has dealt with congestion before on multiple occasions. In every single case, the network seems to suffer from major backlogs when it comes to processing transactions.

Previous mempool issues have often been the result of spam attacks, but things are very different right now. With over 160,000 unconfirmed transactions at the time of writing, things are not looking all that great for Bitcoin. The network hashrate also continues to drop, which isn’t helping matters much.

Most people know all too well how the Bitcoin network often gets clogged up. Every time this happens, people try to include higher transaction fees in the hopes of getting their transfers picked up by miners a lot quicker.

Right now, that seems to be pretty futile, as there isn’t enough hashpower on the network to make things go quicker. A lot of miners have switched over to Bitcoin Cash in the past few days.

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