There are currently 65214 Unconfirmed Transactions on the Bitcoin network at time of posting.

What does that imply? Is this good? I have a transaction of 0.01 BTC that has been stuck for almost 24 hours despite a high fee. Do we have too many unconfirmed transactions on the network?

I'm under the impression that this happens too often recently. In the past it wasn't that for this kind of fee having to wait for hours was the norm. It were more like 30 minutes or so to wait for 1-2 confirmations, or am I wrong? I hope this will be addressed soon.

I have done numerous transactions around this range of a send if not $20 or more each one with the same fee of 0.0001339btc.
It took them all over 7 hours to clear the chain and confirm but they all did eventually.

Don't think I've ever seen this many unconfirmed transactions before (I do have an awful memory though, long story).
This must be another spam attack to have over 60,000 unconfirmed transactions though, no?

Yep m*rons get up your a*ses and run a BU node so they can take over with less hostile approach!!! there are now only 50k unconfirmed transactions, I had one my self and it only took less than an hour and got first confirmation soon after I used viabtc accelerator.

I hate to break it to you, but miners have always controlled the network... That's bitcoin by design.

Is it possible it's the miners themselves doing this to put pressure on the core team to make the necessary improvements?
After all, the miners will reclaim a portion of their own transaction fees – with enough collusion between large miners they could do this almost for free

Isn't confirming transactions the same as mining? sorry but I was running a full node for a few months on my desktop and all I got was an useless overheated junk left for me to throw away.
If you know a way to run a full node and get the fees without the need of your resources being used then I'm all ears.

Unless it's the miners that are injecting the transactions in the first place, no, the miners aren't doing anything to perpetuate this issue. All blocks are about as full as they possibly can be and all signs are that they are filled according to transaction fee/size ratio which is the default bitcoind selection process.

Just enlighten me please, isn't confirming the transactions called mining? also if you find a block you'll get the fees and if you run a node with desktop computer you are technically mining but will never find a block and never receive any thing whatsoever.
It's the pools that should run as many full nodes as they can but are they?

One thing we should let people know, you can mine with 5m rigs and link them just to 1 node or you can have 5m rigs and link each one to a node to have 5m nodes, but if you want to find a block faster than others it's better if you do everything with that one node.

But the network problem is way over that, and it's about the limitations in the source code itself, so if you run 10m full nodes you'll be limited to find a block every 10 minutes and in each block only a limited number of transactions can fit.