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Collaboration with Solana's e-commerce giant triggered the rise
Solana Labs has achieved significant success by integrating its decentralized payment protocol Solana Pay into US e-commerce giant Shopify.
Thanks to the new payment method, millions of businesses on Shopify will be able to accept payments in USDC, the second largest stablecoin in the crypto market. Because USDC is pegged to the dollar, businesses are expected to adopt this payment method quickly.
With this integration, Shopify, which makes up 10% of the US e-commerce industry, has become a part of the Solana ecosystem. One of the

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits Record Level – Why Is This A Bullish Sign For BTC Price?
Showing how hard it is to mine a block, Bitcoin mining difficulty has reached an all-time high with 55.62 trillion hashes.
Bitcoin mining difficulty is automatically adjusted by the protocol every two weeks or when 2,016 blocks are mined. These block intervals are called “epochs”.
The Bitcoin network aims to mine each block within 10 minutes.
If mining activity increases during an epoch, it reduces the mined time of a block by 10 minutes from its target. The network automatically increases the mining diffic