Here are Wednesday's biggest developing stories in crypto based on Santiment's data:

• ETH (3950+ mentions)

On Thursday had a maximum social volume since December. What does it mean for price? Friday will show.

Moods:

- Eth to the moon 🚀

- ETH Goes Parabolic

- eth will never die

- ETH is King

Historically similar kind of moods usually meant the asset reached the top. Local top.

We’ll see.

Overall:

Social volume: TOP ***

Mood: 100% Excitement ***

• LTC (720+ mentions)

Moods:

• ltc should reach easy 120usd
• ltc moons
• Sir currently LTC is a shitcoin
• maybe ltc will lead next pump

Some doubts detected.

Overall:

Social volume: HIGH **

Mood: POSITIVE WITH DOUBT **

• Bug (460 combined mentions in 48 hours)

There are two stories behind this word.

1. Stellar network went down. No new transactions were added for about 2 hours.

What basically happened was that a critical mass of nodes went down causing a cascading failure and so the entire network went down but because it isn't frequently used, few noticed.

2. Bitcoin Cash Network Glitched After Undergoing Scheduled Hard Fork

After going through a planned update this Wednesday, May 15, 2019, the Bitcoin Cash network stopped processing transactions. Issue was resolved in a few hours.

• Mempool (210+ mentions)

Bitcoin congestion is increasing.

Amount of unconfirmed transactions as well as mempool size topped on Thursday:

Actually not the first time this year - charts

But nowadays this narrative got some traction.

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