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08th May: Crypto & Coffee at 8
🚨 Bitcoin Network congestion! 🔥 Binance closes BTC withdrawals ❗ Ethereum Foundation sold $30M in Ether 🚨 Deloitte integrates blockchain for digital credentials.

🚨 Bitcoin Network Struggles with unprecedented traffic and soaring fees On 07th May over 390,000 transfers were stuck &, waiting for confirmation. 179 blocks would need to be mined to clear this backlog. The reason for this is simple BRC20 tokens + an Increase in Ordinal inscriptions.

- Good for Miners: Can charge a high fee
- Bad for Users: Delay in transactions

❗ BRC-20 is an experimental token standard recently introduced that allows users to create and transfer fungible tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain.

🚨 Check the Blockchain DXB podcast we cover this in detail & share our thoughts & commentary on this. We discuss the global crypto market, we look at Defi & the 24-hour volume, Stablecoins, & quite a lot more. Podcast link here
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🔥 Binance mentioned via Twitter they have temporarily closed #BTC withdrawals due to the large volume of pending transactions. They have Rest assured, funds are SAFU. We strongly recommend reading the series of tweets here https://lnkd.in/dNGK8ZJc This is the 2nd pause in less than 8 hours CoinGecko data shows Binance has significantly slid in its position for bitcoin trading volume and is no longer in the top 10 exchanges for bitcoin trading pairs.

🚨 Cointelegraph has reported that On May 6, Ethereum Foundation Foundation transferred nearly $30 million in Ether ie ETH1,877 to the Kraken Digital Asset Exchange cryptocurrency exchange, causing jitters in the market about a potential selloff event.ETH price fell 4.8% to $1,900 on the day, but the decline has been negligible so far amid a wider recovery trend.
 

❗Who makes the decision to dump these coins? An interesting question posed by Brad Mills via Twitter What’s the difference between Ripple dumping hundreds of millions on retail vs ETH founders doing it? This surely does give much confidence in Security