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Bitcoin Surpasses One Billion Transactions After 800 Weeks

Bitcoin Surpasses One Billion Transactions After 800 Weeks

800 weeks and one day following its inception on January 3, 2009, Bitcoin has achieved a significant milestone by surpassing one billion processed transactions.

This achievement arrives amidst a period of heightened activity for the cryptocurrency, driven by the introduction of innovative protocols such as Bitcoin Ordinals and Runes, along with the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs, which have bolstered bullish sentiment.

While Bitcoin’s one billion transaction mark trails behind Ethereum’s nearly 2.4 billion transactions, its journey to this milestone has been characterized by a slower pace, averaging six transactions per second over the last 30 days according to Clark Moody’s Bitcoin dashboard.


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This milestone coincides with the recent halving event, signaling a significant moment in Bitcoin’s evolution.

Although daily transaction fees have stabilized post-halving, the seven-day moving average of transactions remains notably high compared to historical levels, underscoring Bitcoin’s ongoing growth trajectory towards the two billion transaction mark.

Author
Alexander Stefanov - Editor-in-Chief at Coinspress
Alexander Stefanov

Reporter at CoinsPress

Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coinspress and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.

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