Bitcoin politics plays too big a role in its scalability dispute, meanwhile, unconfirmed transactions queue and increasing fees scare investors away. It has become the most critical problem encountered by Bitcoin ever.
Despite having dragged over a long period of time, the block size and scaling problem of Bitcoin have never been as bad as is being experienced within the community presently.
Read more here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-rising-fees-confirmation-queues-see-users-investors-switching-to-altcoins
Thus why XPR and STR have been on fire. Trading these is easier than trading stock if you know technicals. If you simply put the 8 & 34 EMA with the 200 SMA lines as well as the fib levels on your polo charts....you can trade the crap out of almost all of the majors.....very technical trading.