Unconfirmed Bitcoin Transactions Climb Above 90,000
Yes, the number of backlogged Bitcoin transactions climbed above 90,000 and the size of memory pool exceeded 150MB. This is because one London-based Bitcoin exchange decided to give away almost $48,000 worth of Bitcoin free on Thursday. MotherBoard Vice reports that CoinWallet.eu had released 200 Bitcoins at no cost in lieu of conducting its stress test. As a result, users are fervently making transactions in order to receive those coins, which is effectively leading to backlogging of transactions and expansion of the memory pool. CoinWallet.eu slowly released the addresses and private....
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Hash rate has also tumbled on the Bitcoin network. The Bitcoin network has slowed down amid Bitcoin’s (BTC) new price highs, causing a large number of unconfirmed transactions.According to mempool transaction count on Blockchain.com, the number of unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions surpassed 100,000 on Oct. 27. This is the highest number of unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions recorded since late 2017 when Bitcoin hit $20,000.The all-time high of unconfirmed transactions in the Bitcoin mempool was recorded in early December 2017, accounting for about 180,000 transactions, according to data from....
The Bitcoin network hashrate has dropped significantly over the last four days sliding from a high of 161 exahash per second (EH/s) to 90 EH/s on October 27. Today, the Bitcoin hashrate has improved a hair as the network’s security is currently hovering around 100 EH/s. However, the mempool log of unconfirmed transactions has spiked […] The....
Over the past 24 hours, the blockchain has been inundated with small, spam-like transactions that are large in data size, but significantly small in bitcoin value transferred. At the peak, there were more than 50,000 unconfirmed transactions waiting to be mined into a block, resulting in delays for normal transactions to be confirmed. While the network has been working to decrease this backlog - transactions are down to 31,000 at time of this article's writing - the type of transactions that are being sent suggest this is a continuation of a stress test that has been put on the system.....