I have heard that network delay because of huge transaction been done by the trader and all along. -snip- Really fed up about the transaction fee now because I think it is the all time highest fees in every time.
Bitcoin's craze has attracted so many new users, that at this point in time Bitcoin's limitations are mainly responsible for this. It just can't keep up with the growth. If we look at the fees a bit more in detail, then they have gone up significantly as per their fiat value, but not that much as per their Bitcoin value, and that's something people tend to discard. They just look at the fiat value of each transaction, and based on that consider it to be very high. The main reason for the fees to have a higher fiat value, is related to the x15 increase of the price. If we were still hovering around the $1k level, the fees wouldn't be $10 on average, but more like $0.60-$0.70 per transaction.