With everyone from chemists to street sweepers piling into Bitcoin, cryptocurrency exchanges are struggling to keep up with demand. Exchanges worldwide are adding around 100,000 new users each day, even after the recent pullback in the Bitcoin price. The surge in sign-ups peaked in January and caused lengthy delays in verification. A number of top exchanges were forced to stop accepting new users, or to impose limits on new sign ups while they upgraded their systems to cope. Users flooded social media to complain of server downtime and painfully slow transactions. Binance had to put a cap on new usersPowered by WPeMatico