Mempool cleared at blocks 777653, 77654, & 77655 The block fees didn't get very expensive overall with the ordinals drama. A lot less that the spike in Nov 2022 with the FTX & Binance drama. The ordinals drama also happened to coincide with Binance's routine consolidation dumping. Majority of txs were < 2 sat/vB (pink). At it's peak, the avg tx fees were ~5-6 sat/vB, compared to the avg spiking to ~12-15 sat/vB in Nov.

Lightning is a lot of fun, but that's mainly what it is, fun and games. Child's play. The real battle is in the darknet markets, the real free markets. If you want to be taken seriously as freedom money, you better be able to hang in the darknet markets. Don't lose sight of the mission.