The North American Bitcoin Conference has stopped accepting cryptocurrency payments for ticket purchases due to network congestion. On the official website of the annual event, to be held on January 18 and 19 in Miami, also cited the "manual processing" of cryptocurrency payments under which the organizers of the event decided to Accept payments only for last minute bookings. The statement of the organizers reads:

"Due to network congestion and manual processing, we closed the ticket payments using cryptocurrencies – hopefully next year there will be will have more unity in the community becomes a reality We still accept and accept cryptocurrencies for our conferences, up to fourteen days before the event. Due to manual data entry into our cryptocurrency paid ticketing platforms, we decided to close Bitcoin payments for last-minute sales due to time delays. "

The move is unlikely »

Bitcoin Core developers announced a full implementation of SegWit technology to respond to complaints about Bitcoin network speed and fees in version 0.16.0 of the client. publication scheduled in May 2018.

The addition of compatible Bitcoin addresses SegWit allows users to send parts at a fraction of the cost of standard "legacy" addresses.

Frustrated Bitcoin users are already pushing big companies to adopt SegWit technology to help reduce costs and queues. A petition calling for the Segway upgrade to be a priority for Coinbase attracted nearly 7,500 signatures.