As at 4:05 PM Tuesday, 20 June 2017 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), around 10 minutes after Status ICO started, the Ether Block is experiencing extremely heavy traffic, making thousands of transactions pending.
https://etherscan.io/address/0x55d34b686aa8c04921397c5807db9ecedba00a4c
Meanwhile, open-source Wallet like MyEther Wallet has lost connectivity to the node.
The Hype is real!