Anyone see notice the big price swings on BTC, Eth, LTC, and Bca all shot up at the same time and almost exactly 12 hours later all dropped off a cliff lower than where they started? Seems like a big fish manipulation, I noticed it many other times and makes me tilt my head and makes me leary

I sent a transaction
1: without (or with an exceptionally small) transaction fee
        2: using extremely small or unconfirmed inputs
3: while the stars were not standing right.
For whatever reason, I have been waiting forever for my transaction to confirm.
Why is it taking so long for my transaction to confirm? What can I do to speed-up the transaction’s confirmation?

As we all know that crypto world is increasing rapidly but still to reach each corner of the world about crypto what can be the media?
I think telling a friends and family about this is not enough.