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- Transaction fees for Bitcoin (BTC) have unexpectedly surged to ten times the usual rate. The primary cause for this increase on the BTC network is outlined in the data.
Reports indicate that OKX is moving thousands of Bitcoin Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXO) to their hot wallet. This operation incurs costs exceeding ten times the average fee recorded in the past 24 hours.
The Bitcoin network is currently facing considerable congestion, with an overwhelming number of transactions pending confirmation in the mempool.
Consequently, users are compelled to pay over 500 satoshis per byte for immediate transaction execution, translating to approximately $50-100 for a standard transfer.
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This elevated fee structure implies that a substantial portion of the Bitcoin that OKX aims to consolidate is allocated to miners.
For instance, in a single transaction, a fee reaching $15,000 was incurred to merge UTXOs valued at only $48,000, representing over 30% of the total amount.
At present, the Bitcoin network is burdened with more than 330,000 unconfirmed transactions, and memory usage has escalated to 1.35 GB.
In light of these conditions, OKX is suspected of organizing and managing user wallets, a development that has garnered attention within the cryptocurrency community.
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