“…blocks were becoming larger as the system became more popular, and the blocksize limit was close to being reached, which would result in full blocks.”
Every time I reread “The Blocksize War” I take a note on page one of the state of the mempool.
Last read, block height 795727, there were over 300k unconfirmed transactions on mempool.space and the low priority fee was 15 sat/vB.
BTC/USD: $30700
Tonight, as I read, block height 890179, Bitcoin trades around $81000. There have been quite a few blocks that were not full and the low priority fee is 1 sat/vB.
Tick tock…next block.