An increase in the commission for processing transactions on the Bitcoin network provoked a wave of discussions about hardforking the blockchain to rid it of spam. On December 17, the average fee for confirming the sending of bitcoins reached an unprecedented value of $37.4. Then the size of the commission began to decrease sharply, and by December 24 it dropped to $10.8, which is also a fairly high figure.
During the period from December 14 to 18, a record number of ordinates and tokens of the BRC-20 standard were released on the Bitcoin network. In this regard, the blame for the increase in commission is placed on the creators of these digital artifacts.
I hope that fans of the edges will fork [switch to a fork of the Bitcoin blockchain]. But they can be so crazy and proud that they believe in their victory, wrote software developer Jimmy Song.
Cryptocurrency popularizer Adam Simeka predicts that the split among Bitcoiners caused by the creation of protocols for the issuance of ordinates and BRC-20 tokens will ultimately lead to a collapse dforku. The authors of the fork of the Bitcoin network may be representatives of the Taproot Wizard community, who proposed to launch a new version of the BTC network, similar to the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. A hard fork of the BTC network may take place as early as next year, as programmer Udi Bertheimer stated that an update to the Bitcoin blockchain will be released in 2024.
