According to @BitMEXResearch, Satoshi Nakamoto emphasized that paying a higher fee lets users outbid others to get included, reinforcing Bitcoin’s pay-for-priority mempool dynamics; source: @BitMEXResearch tweet dated Aug 19, 2025. Traders should expect faster confirmations for BTC transfers with higher fee rates during mempool congestion and slower settlement for low-fee exchange deposits and withdrawals, impacting execution timing and arbitrage; source: @BitMEXResearch. This fee competition can increase the share of miner revenue from transaction fees during busy periods, a signal traders monitor alongside mempool pressure and exchange deposit latency; source: @BitMEXResearch.

According to Dan Held, Satoshi designed Bitcoin with a built-in viral loop where user growth can increase BTC’s value and attract more users, reinforcing adoption-driven price dynamics, source: Dan Held on X (Aug 14, 2025); Satoshi Nakamoto on the P2P Foundation forum Q&A (Feb 11, 2009). For trading, monitor adoption proxies such as daily active addresses, new addresses, and transaction counts as gauges of network demand, source: Glassnode Academy metrics documentation; Coin Metrics Network Data documentation. Research using Metcalfe-style models links Bitcoin’s network value to user growth, supporting the focus on user-derived signals, source: Wheatley, Sornette et al., Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 18-22 (2018). Traders can incorporate this by tracking sustained uptrends and rate-of-change in user metrics alongside price and liquidity to confirm trend strength rather than chase short-lived spikes, source: Glassnode Insights educational materials; Coin Metrics research notes.