Bitcoin Network in Flux as BRC-20 Craze Sends Transaction Fees Towards Multi-Year Highs – What Next for BTC Price?
The Bitcoin network is in flux amid a surge in the popularity of BRC-20 tokens, a new Bitcoin blockchain-based fungible token standard inspired by the Ethereum blockchain’s ecosystem of ERC-20 tokens. The BRC-20 standard...
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The BRC-20 standard, which was developed and deployed by a pseudonymous Twitter user by the name of Domo only just over one month ago, uses the Bitcoin-based Ordinals protocol and inscriptions to manage token contracts, token minting and token transfers....
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