The Bitcoin miners cartel tries to trap more people into it, and if it rises again, they may hike their fees once again, to maintain their trap. I have no faith in them. Did any other currency's

According to this git thread, it looks like the Monero codebase will allow for automatic switching to low priority when it may not take a long time to send funds. Things are being done! Keepin' you guys

WHY BITCOIN IS DOWN! As of 12th Jan 2018, (Australia Time) Bitcoin has 170,000 unconfirmed transactions on the network. This has been like this for some time now (2 - 3 weeks). With only on average 2000