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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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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