Bitcoin Lightning Network Grows Despite Market Slowdown

One of the reasons that mainstream adoption of Bitcoin has been slow is due to the inability of the blockchain network to scale up to handle thousands of transactions per second. As a result, the system witnessed massive congestion late last year with transaction confirmation taking days and the transaction fee going up to $30 for just a $100 transfer.
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