me: "hi, yes, i'd like to create an ENS subdomain please"
ENS: "great, that'll be $69"
me: "...... it's usually like $7"
ENS: "yeah, well today the tubes are full of frogs and toads so it's extra. sorry, maybe come back later"

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This is quite a flaw in the system no? When people are flooding to buy Gold or shares in Tesla, it doesn't suddenly raise the price of me going to buy a book?

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yeah it’s network congestion. high demand for blockspace means higher gas prices. someone more knowledgeable than me here knows when this will change for L1. L2s address this problem but don’t have wide adoption. optimistic Base will help

Yep hopefully the L2s and future developments means in my book analogy I can just go to a different store if one has a massive queue I dont' want to stand in.