A Price Milestone Is Reached: What a Round Number Means
Round numbers generate coverage in proportion to their digits rather than their significance. A threshold is a base-ten artefact, not a property of the network.
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Is Bitcoin’s Fee Market Ready to Replace the Subsidy? A First-Principles Look
Every halving pushes the same open question further into view: can transaction fees alone eventually fund the security that keeps Bitcoin's chain…
The Week in Bitcoin: Launching Our Recurring Report Format
The first edition of a recurring, dated report: price and volatility context, the network's on-chain state, and one story from the news cycle read…
Introducing Guest Contributors: How Outside Analysis Works Here
This section carries analysis from outside the desk — always labelled clearly, always disclosed, always held to the same First-Principles Take…
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A Security Disclosure Lands: How to Tell Severity From Noise
Vulnerability headlines rarely distinguish between a flaw in the protocol, in one implementation, in a wallet, or in a service. The four have…
A Payment Processor Adds Bitcoin: What Counts as Adoption
Most merchant-acceptance announcements describe a settlement arrangement in which no merchant ever holds Bitcoin and no customer needs to.
A Fork Proposal Appears: How Bitcoin Actually Changes
Protocol change stories are usually written as politics. The mechanics are stricter than the coverage suggests, and most proposals never activate.
A Lightning Capacity Milestone: What the Metric Can Support
Public Lightning capacity is a measure of how much Bitcoin is committed to visible channels. It is not payment volume, and it is not the whole…
A Tax Authority Clarifies Bitcoin Treatment: Reading the Detail
Tax guidance is where vague crypto policy becomes specific and personal. The classification chosen upstream determines almost everything downstream.
A Large Holder Moves Coins: What On-Chain Movement Does Not Tell You
Whale-movement alerts are among the most-shared and least-informative on-chain stories. A transfer shows that coins moved. It does not show who moved…
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Active Addresses Are Rising. Does That Mean More People Are Using Bitcoin?
Active addresses is one of the most-cited on-chain metrics, and one of the most routinely over-interpreted. Here is what it can support as evidence…
What Realized Cap Can and Can’t Tell You
Realized cap is a genuinely clever idea — valuing each coin at the price it last moved, not at current spot. It is also built on assumptions that…
Active addresses
620,856 30-day average 471,962- What it means
- Unique addresses that appeared in a transaction on the most recent full day.
- What it does not tell you
- Addresses are not people. One user can generate hundreds; an exchange can serve millions from a handful. Treat this as a coarse activity trend, never a user count.
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