PE65: Ordinals & FEES: Macro Bitcoin Perspective

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This is the sixty-fifth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

Contents

00:00 Intro

00:53 Latest daily average Tx fees (in dollars)

02:00 Non-base money use cases?

02:33 Use trailing twelve months!

07:40 TTM issuance % (in USD)

14:35 Other base money fees

19:13 BTC's fee % component will be more

20:10 TTM issuance % (in BTC)

Here I look at the average daily transaction fees, in US-dollar terms, for the Bitcoin protocol over its lifetime. Even with the explosion of Ordinals onto the scene these days and the demand for transaction-inclusion (block space) increasing, it does not change the fact that on-chain, mainnet bitcoins - UTXOs - are base money!

In addition, we will roll these transaction fees, over an entire year (trailing 12-months or trailing-365 days), and see how much of a % these fees make up of total miner revenue. Remember, the other (much larger, at present) component of mining revenue is the block reward, or the issuance of new coins.

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

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