Couple gets married on Ethereum blockchain for $587 in transaction fees
A Californian couple has used tokenized rings to immortalize their marriage on the Ethereum blockchain. Rebecca Rose and Peter Kacherginsky, employees of leading U.S.-based crypto exchange Coinbase, have revealed how they used Ethereum’s blockchain to become lawfully wedded.On April 3, Rose posted to Twitter to announce the pair had tied the knot on March 14 in both the physical and virtual words.Most people get married in a place of religious worship, on a beach, or in the mountains. Peter (@_iphelix) and I are NOT most people. We got married on the #blockchain. 1/7....
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Anil Narasipuram, the husband, was initially motivated by blockchain marriages done in other countries. A young couple from India used nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to digitize their love for each other till eternity over the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. The recently married couple from Pune, India, Shruti Nair and Anil Narasipuram decided to take their court marriage to the next level by hosting a blockchain wedding. According to Anil, the husband:“I read some articles on how people in other countries were doing blockchain marriages and it motivated me.”Other prominent crypto entrepreneurs to....
Data shows both Bitcoin and Ethereum have observed a spike in the transaction fees over the past couple of days as holders have rushed to sell amid the crash. Bitcoin & Ethereum Transaction Fees Shoot Up The “transaction fees” is an amount that users making transactions on the network have to pay in order to […]
Following the bug and the split that occurred after a great number of Geth nodes did not upgrade, Ethereum fees have risen dramatically since August 21, jumping from $11 per transaction to today’s 0.0088 ether per transaction ($27.98).
Ethereum Transaction Fees Skyrocket
Ethereum is the second-largest crypto asset in terms of crypto market capitalization with a $375 billion market cap or 17.4% of the crypto economy’s $2.16 trillion. ETH is up 34.3% during the last month, but has lost 2.1% during the last two weeks. On August 27, Bitcoin.com News reported on....
Ethereum still boasts one of the highest transaction volumes in the crypto space but recently, the blockchain has been seeing a decline in its transaction fees. The fees decline significantly which has been a welcome development for users of the network. However, this decline has sparked concerns regarding what types of effects it could have […]
Ethereum gas fee had run-up to some of the highest levels back in 2021. Mostly, this was caused by the growth of the decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) space that saw activity on the network spike significantly. This had continued for the better part of the year but as the market has ushered in the new year, activity on the network has begun to stabilize, seeing Ethereum fees drop. Ethereum Fees Drop To Eight-Month Low Ethereum fees have been steadily dropping for the last couple of months. Some of this has to do with the recent bear trend that has seen momentum....