how could anyone predict this? 😅😅😅

Is congestion good reason to halt withdrawals? What's the mempool for then?

Yeah qui bono?

Exchanges moving numbers around inside their own systems instead of sats on-chain.

It's not an attack on Bitcoin. It's an attack on self-custody is what it is.

Meanwhile:

Those old mining rigs sold on ebay for scrap suddenly have some value,

and running a Lightning node suddenly seems to make sense financially.