A gas war occurs when the demand to mint a new NFT collection is greater than the network can process. The winners claim their NFTs and the losers are left without their NFT, but still have to pay the gas fee for the failed transaction.

Several Indicators Suggest We Are at a Local Bottom The global crypto market has been falling since around November 10th, the day on which Bitcoin hit its all-time high of approximately $69,000. There has been steady selling since then, although it did not feel like it – impressive gains in various Layer 1 and Metaverse tokens masked the overall weakness. Yet with the Fed’s hawkish comments in the new year leading to pain for equities as well, nearly all of crypto has been pummeled. Bitcoin has managed to hold around the $40,000 level after briefly falling through. Now, two weeks into 2022, there are several on-chain metrics that suggest BTC, and the broader crypto market, may be past their bottom. Reserve Risk Flashes Buy Reserve risk, a measure of the confidence of long-term BTC holders, has declined to levels that indicate attractive risk/rewards and have coincided with troughs in the