What to know:
- The mempool, a queue for unconfirmed transactions, has significantly fewer transactions compared to late 2024. 🤷♂️
- One observer suggests this idle mempool might be a sign of an impending crisis. 🌪️
- Another expert calls the low activity a clear sign of a lack of retail participation in the bitcoin market. 🛍️
The Bitcoin blockchain, it seems, is as busy as a deserted ghost town, even as its native token, bitcoin, trades near a record per-unit price. According to the mempool – a holding area for unconfirmed blockchain transactions waiting to be included in a block by miners – the activity is as lively as a rock in the desert. 🏜️
On Saturday, the mempool had just 5,000 odd transactions awaiting inclusion, with the tally rising to 15,000 at press time. Still, this is a far cry from the 150,000 transactions when BTC‘s price first soared above $100,000 in late 2024, according to data from Blockchain.com. 📈
Since March this year, the tally has oscillated between 3,000 and 30,000, indicating a demand for the network that’s as robust as a wilting daisy. 🌼 Despite BTC establishing a foothold above $100,000, the network seems to be taking a siesta. 😴
“Bitcoin’s mempool (queue of transactions waiting to be processed) is almost completely empty. The percentage of miner revenue coming from fees (instead of inflation) is down to a fraction of a percent,” Joël Valenzuela, director of marketing and business development, said on X. “Simply put, almost all of Bitcoin’s actual users have gone away. At all-time price highs, too!” Valenzuela added, calling the situation a major crisis where the network either goes bankrupt or becomes a “completely custodial asset run by governments and institutions.” 🏛️
According to Joao Wedson, CEO and founder of crypto data analysis platform Alphractal, the idle mempool is a sign of missing retail participation in the market. “When Mempool transactions begin to rise again, it’s a clear sign that retail is back — because the growing backlog reflects increased demand for using the network,” Wedson said. 🛍️
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