Bitcoin is Dominating Crypto Taking Over 90% of All Mining Fees
When considering Bitcoin dominance in terms of market cap and trading volume, spare a thought for the poor miners. The miners of other altcoins, that is, as they share under 10% of the...
Bitcoin On-Chain Daily Transactions Spike to 15-Month High
The 15-month long bear market isn’t affecting Bitcoin adoption and usage, new data shows, as on-chain transactions have hit their highest since early January 2018. Bitcoin Usage Has...
Visa, Mastercard Plan To Increase Transaction Fees; Cryptocurrencies Don’t
Visa and Mastercard are planning to increase transaction fees for US merchants who accept card payments, Reuters reports. The hikes, which come into effect in April...
Bitcoin ATMs Have Spread to 4,000 Locations Globally
Numerous signs of maturity can be noted across the cryptocurrency industry. A growing number of Bitcoin ATMs is making their mark on the world. This month, the number is expected to...
Ethereum Fees on the Rise as dApps Gain Popularity
A handful of decentralized games are causing Ethereum transaction fees to rise, the price of gas doubling over the past week. Game dApps Slowing the Network Ethereum is a platform that...
Bitcoin’s SegWit Alone is Outnumbering All Bitcoin Cash Transactions
On March 22, BitMEX Research published a follow-up article to its September 2017 analysis on Segregated Witness (SegWit) transactions compared to Bitcoin Cash, and the results...
Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Bitcoin Cash Are Neck-and-Neck in the Payments Race
While Bitcoin is still overwhelmingly preferred for transacting, the latest data shows that Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, and, surprisingly, Dogecoin, are currently neck-and-neck in the...
Bitcoin Fees Sink to 6 Month Low, Undermining Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin (BTC) transaction fees have dipped below than those of Bitcoin Cash (BCH), marking a blow to one of the hard fork’s central remits. Battle Of The Satoshis Data from...
BitPay Backpedals on Payment Limits
Online Bitcoin payments provider BitPay announced last week that the minimum accepted payment would be $100. This was in response to escalating Bitcoin transaction fees during the big...
How Bitcoin Fees Work and Why They’ve Been So High
Fees have been extraordinarily high this past week, and this article aims to clear up misconceptions and help users make smarter decisions in setting the right fees for their...
6 Reasons Your Business Should Be Accepting Bitcoin
With over 80,000 companies already accepting Bitcoin payments as of 2014 and that number rapidly growing, business owners can no longer afford to ignore the world’s most popular...
Bitcoin Wiki Contains Wrong Information Regarding Transaction Fees
Relying on the Bitcoin wiki for up-to-date information on this disruptive digital currency is not always the best idea. Even though the concept of a wiki is to let anybody contribute...