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Nope. There's no load on the mempool. If people were to sell the price would have dropped by now. mempools is standing at only 20,000 pending transactions.

While we have seen days where pending transactions in the mempool were almost 50k-82k and the fee's were in 1.5-2.5 range.

Two factors: Bitcoin price increase + Miners greed (somehow justified).

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