[lawn]

Those mempool stats doesn't suggest spam at all. It's basically impossible to identify spam transactions.

Both Steam and Stripe stopped accepting Bitcoin, that's a fact.

It's only logical that people stopped transacting when fees grew sky high.

[freejulian]

Sure, but if it was Steam and Stripe that caused the insane fees wouldn't the growth have been more organic?

I look at that graph and see ridiculous spikes in transactions followed by months of very few. I have a hard time believe Steam and Stripe's transactions would follow that sort of pattern.