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The new client would relax relay policy rather than rewrite consensus, freeing an estimated $25M in Ordinals and Runes padding without needing a single miner's vote.
Roughly 25% of all Bitcoin network fees are now coming from Runes-related transactions, a structural shift in block-space demand that arrived while BTC trades near $62K, roughly half its October peak.
CryptoQuant's Network Activity Index has climbed above its long-term trend for the first time since mid-2024 — yet the surge is concentrated in sub-0.01 BTC transfers and OP_RETURN data writes, not…
The shift from ~44% in 2023 to ~80% today is being driven by OP_RETURN-based protocols like Runes and Ordinals, not by larger value transfers — and the mempool is already showing it.
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