Nifty News: Bitcoin NFTs cause spicy fees, Mastercard exec tokenizes resignation letter and more
Users are posting massive files to the Bitcoin network via the Ordinals protocol, taking up block space and paying high fees to do so.
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
Users are posting massive files to the Bitcoin network via the Ordinals protocol, taking up block space and paying high fees to do so.
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This nft story adds another data point to the current market tape and is useful when read alongside nearby source coverage.
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