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Bitcoin’s transaction fees Jump by 344%

Olumide AdesinabyOlumide Adesina
2 years ago
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The average cost of completing a transaction had the world’s flagship crypto(Bitcoin) market skyrocket again.

Data retrieved from BitInfoCharts revealed Bitcoin’s average transaction cost has risen to $12, per the highest price level since November 5, when Bitcoin had just started its bull run.

READ: Ripple drops over 10% amid profit-taking

  • At last week’s trading session the average cost of sending a Bitcoin transaction was just $2.7. That marks an increase of 344% in less than a week.
  • The surge in transaction fees is coming at the incredible bullish gains prevailing effect, in which Bitcoin’s price reached a new all-time high of $24,084 and rose by 30% in the past seven days.

READ: 88.0% of all Bitcoins mined, as 2.5 million BTCs left to be mine

What this means: Bitcoin fees usually go high whenever there is a huge activity on the blockchain, taking into consideration there is a specific supply of Bitcoin miners willing to process transactions, and they charge more whenever demand for processing transactions outweighs supply.

  • That means that only those who are in dire need to transact the flagship crypto-asset shall pay the high prices required to send the Bitcoins between wallets.

READ: Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa secures $100m investment in Nigeria data center

What you should know

Bitcoin mining involves the act of solving tasks that come in the form of algorithms in affirming a transaction and fixing it within a block on the blockchain.

  • BTC miners, who successfully mine a block are paid or rewarded in BTC. BTC miners also help in facilitating the security mechanism of the blockchain network by confirming transaction information or data to the Bitcoin ledger.
  • This confirmation process involves solving complex mathematical problems and a lot of computing power. BTC Miners are successfully rewarded with BTC for their contribution to the ledger based on their proof-of-work.

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    December 20, 2020 at 10:21 am

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