The rise in popularity of BRC-20 tokens, essentially memecoins on the Bitcoin blockchain, has pushed Bitcoin fees to 2 year highs.
BRC-20s have massively increased demand for Bitcoin blockspace for the first time in recent history, with the network suffering from congestion and unconfirmed transactions as a result.
Over the weekend, Binance had to pause BTC withdrawals twice as they hadn’t accounted for a surge in BTC fees in the amount they pay miners, which had caused many transactions to go unconfirmed.
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