En la semana pasada, la red Bitcoin ha progresado en la resolución de sus problemas de congestión. En mayo 7, 2023, el número de transacciones no confirmadas alcanzó un máximo histórico de más de 500,000 transferencias, causando un retraso importante. Sin embargo, a partir de hoy, that number has been reduced to 263,406. Corrientemente, 184 blocks need to be cleared to process the majority of transactions that are still stuck in the network’s mempool.
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Congestion Woes Ease on Bitcoin Network
The long queue of transactions is finally starting to subside as bitcoin miners have started catching up with some of the backlog. As we reportado three days ago, Bitcoin-Tidings.com News noted the beginning of the congestion-clearing process, with unconfirmed transactions dropping from over 500,000 on May 7 to just above 300,000 on Thursday, Mayo 11.
According to mempool.io statistics, high-priority transactions were priced at $3 por transferencia, while low-priority transactions cost $2.23 per transfer at that time. Current statistics on May 14 show that onchain fees have significantly subsided on the Bitcoin blockchain over the past three days. Just a few days ago, a high-priority transaction would have cost $3, but today, that fee has dropped to $0.83.
A medium-priority transfer is now priced at $0.79, while a low-priority transaction can cost around $0.75. This is a significant improvement, with high-priority onchain fees sliding by 72.33% sobre el pasado 72 horas. Además, the number of unconfirmed transactions stuck in the queue has reduced to 263,406, which is just above half of what it held on May 7.
Lightning Network Capacity and Channels Drop
En mayo 9, the number of transactions was around 413,420, which means that 36.28% of the backlog has been cleared in the past five days. While fees skyrocketed to roughly $30 per transaction on May 7 and have been quite volatile lately, la Lightning Network’s capacity did not improve. En realidad, the number of BTC locked into the Lightning Network dropped from 5,463 BTC on May 5 to today’s capacity of 5,415 BTC on May 14.
The dip indicates that roughly $1.28 million in value left the Lightning Network amid the transaction backlog chaos. En mayo 8, the Lightning Network boasted 73,352 canales únicos. Sin embargo, that number has since decreased to the current 71,286 canales únicos. According to mempool.space’s Lightning Network metrics, apenas 5,057 BTC in capacity is on clearnet, while 253 BTC of capacity is using Tor. The remaining Lightning Network capacity is identified as “other.”
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