In an interview with Cointelegraph’s Joe Hall, Held touched upon various topics, including transaction fees, scaling solutions and the evolving narrative around Bitcoin as a means of payment. One of the significant concerns discussed was the recent spike in BTC transaction fees and its impact on the community.
The recent Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami, Florida brought together cryptocurrency enthusiasts and experts from around the world. Among them was Dan Held, a Bitcoin (BTC) educator and the chief marketing officer at Trust Machines, who shared his insights on the current state of Bitcoin and its prospects.
Fred Pye, CEO of 3iQ, Canada’s first Bitcoin fund issuer, said in an interview with Cointelegraph that as “the FOMO in Bitcoin is gone” institutional investors and portfolio managers have started to take a look at it as “a serious venue.”
Profit-taking by traders resulted in a 9.30% drop in 24-hour trading volume to $278,449,391. This decrease in trading volume illustrates investors’ cautious stance after RNDR hit the 7-day high.
The UK, South Korea, and Japan are also heavily affected by crypto scams. Since 2011, there have been 461 high-profile incidents across 45 countries, for a total of $16.7 billion in stolen crypto, mainly ERC-20 tokens.
China is the worst affected in terms of overall value. This is due to two prominent hacks, PlusToken in 2019 ($2.25 Billion) and WoToken in 2020 ($1 Billion).
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Bitcoin now suffers from many of the same problems that have bedeviled Ethereum for years, including scammy memecoins and shitcoins, NFTs of monkey pictures hogging block space and skyrocketing transaction fees.