Bitfury confirming low fee transactions?

I noticed something odd today. I sent a transaction with a 10,000 satoshi/KB fee earlier to pile up a bunch of small inputs. With fees being so steep right now, I thought it would take ages to confirm. But guess what, it got confirmed today by Bitfury, even though fees haven't dipped below 200,000/KB for a long time. I'm not upset about this, but it makes me think... is Bitfury, along with some other miners, confirming these lower fee transactions just to keep their blocks filled and avoid raising any eyebrows? Meanwhile, the higher fee transactions are left to pile up in the mempool, driving those fee estimates even higher?

I suppose you could refuse all fees over 20,0001 satoshi /KB but the bottom line is the network can do about 600,000 transactions on a 144 block day so why not take higher fees rather then lower fees. https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions we are over 350,000 transactions per day the reason we don't do  the 600,000 max is every transaction would need to be around 227bytes

Interesting stat here. https://blockchain.info/stats  Percent of income from transaction fees = 19%  Looks like the "when the block reward runs out" issue some folks worry about is ALREADY getting eliminated pretty quickly.

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