Bitcoin Slips Below $41K as Fees Surge to Yearly High, Slowing Network
• Bitcoin price slips below $41,000, erasing previous week's gains as rally cools • Average Bitcoin transaction fee surges to yearly high of $38.43 • Surge in fees attributed to growing popularity of Bitcoin Ordinals NFTs • High fees clogging network, with nearly 300,000 unconfirmed transactions • Crypto market cap down 3.5% to $1.59 trillion, most top 20 coins trading down