Binance Coin Spikes 100% After Threatening Ethereum’s Dominance
This week, transaction fees on the Ethereum blockchain grew to a level that made the decentralized applications (dapp) operating atop it practically unusable. In some cases, transferring as little as $5 across the second-largest public chain started costing as high as $300. With no choice left, many of the dapp developers decided to run the […]
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