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Coinbase Reports Delays in Processing Bitcoin Withdrawals Due to Network Congestion

The delays come on a day when the price of bitcoin surpassed its all-time high.

Updated Sep 14, 2021, 10:36 a.m. Published Nov 30, 2020, 10:57 p.m.
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Leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, on a day when the price of bitcoin reached a new all-time high, said it is experiencing delays processing BTC withdrawals due to Bitcoin network congestion.

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  • Deposits, buys and sells are not impacted, the exchange said.
  • Coinbase has suffered a number of issues – mainly outages – during busy trading periods this year including most recently on Nov. 26.
  • The most recent issue comes as BTC eclipsed its all-time high of $19,783 Monday morning en route to setting a new record of $19,864 before giving back some of those gains, trading at $19,478.89, up 6.90% at press time.

See also: Coinbase Goes Down Again as Bitcoin Price Action, Volatility Heat Up Again

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Pudgy Penguins is building a multi-vertical consumer IP platform — combining phygital products, games, NFTs and PENGU to monetize culture at scale.

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Pudgy Penguins is emerging as one of the strongest NFT-native brands of this cycle, shifting from speculative “digital luxury goods” into a multi-vertical consumer IP platform. Its strategy is to acquire users through mainstream channels first; toys, retail partnerships and viral media, then onboard them into Web3 through games, NFTs and the PENGU token.

The ecosystem now spans phygital products (> $13M retail sales and >1M units sold), games and experiences (Pudgy Party surpassed 500k downloads in two weeks), and a widely distributed token (airdropped to 6M+ wallets). While the market is currently pricing Pudgy at a premium relative to traditional IP peers, sustained success depends on execution across retail expansion, gaming adoption and deeper token utility.

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Silver futures on the crypto derivatives exchange are currently showing $1.25 billion in volume and $155 million in open interest.

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  • HYPE, the native token of the Hyperliquid derivatives exchange, jumped 24% in 24 hours as trading in silver, gold and other commodities surged.
  • Silver perpetual futures on Hyperliquid became the platform’s third most active market during Asia hours.
  • Because trading fees from user-created markets are used largely to buy back HYPE on the open market, the spike in commodity activity is fueling demand for the token and signaling broader growth for Hyperliquid.