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The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)'s website became unavailable just as it launched its first bitcoin futures contracts at 6 p.m. EST on Sunday.
The website downtime – which CBOE attributed to significant traffic around the futures launch in a post on Twitter –...
I sent $25 of Bitcoin from one address (in Coinbase) to another (Kraken).
- $25 sent
- $16 fee
- $41 total
40% of the total transaction in fees.
unbelievable
3:25 AM - Dec 9, 2017
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