Due to the recent upward surge in the price of BTC Bitcoin has come under severe attack. The attacks are costing the attackers money but they're failing to shut down the network.
I'd like to report that in spite of the attacks transactions (with a reasonable miner fee) have been going through with no problems.
Those attacks will make bitcoin stronger only if we start taking action and adding fixes in the software, for starters, the one proposed by cobble which got rejected back in the day (thats why he basically created LTC).
Once we get this set and done, we can start raising the blocksize limit.