Skyrocketing activity has led to a surge in average Bitcoin transaction fees — which rose to US$31.15 as of March 8 — exerting increasing pressure on users in low- and middle-income economies including Bitcoin-reliant communities in El Salvador, the first country to implement mass adoption of the digital currency.
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Bitcoin users in El Salvador — the first country to adopt mass use of Bitcoin as legal tender — have used Twitter to highlight the increasing limitations that rising transaction fees are exerting on their ability to make daily transactions.
I’m in El Salvador
Fast facts
Bitcoin users in El Salvador — the first country to adopt mass use of Bitcoin as legal tender — have used Twitter to highlight the increasing limitations that rising transaction fees are exerting on their ability to make daily transactions.
I’m in El Salvador