According to BitMEX Research, Bitcoin blockspace should be allocated by market pricing and miners should not avoid high-fee transactions, as stated in its post on X dated Sep 30, 2025, source: BitMEX Research (X, Sep 30, 2025). This stance reinforces fee-based prioritization in miner transaction selection, a core driver of BTC fee market dynamics relevant to transaction costs and confirmation ordering, source: BitMEX Research (X, Sep 30, 2025).

According to BitMEX Research, image-related Ordinals are approximately the same on-chain size as BRC-20 Ordinals, at around 30GB (source: BitMEX Research, Sep 8, 2025). BitMEX Research reports that both categories contribute a similar cumulative data footprint on Bitcoin of roughly 30GB (source: BitMEX Research, Sep 8, 2025).