The Bitcoin Mempool Is a Ghost Town: Is Retail Gone?
A simple observation of the state of the Bitcoin mempool and its low utilization sparked a debate on the current state of bitcoin adoption and how the retail and self-custody use case have languished in the face of the d...
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