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Dog's 100B fully circulating supply and Bitcoin-base-layer settlement are the structural draws Yusko engaged with, though he explicitly stopped short of an investment endorsement.
The client tests whether node operators can widen access to Bitcoin block space while preserving consensus and reducing reliance on private relay channels.
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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