List of Flash News about miner fee revenue
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2025-10-05 20:38 |
Bitcoin Core v30 vs Bitcoin Knots: Node Upgrade Debate Signals BTC Fee-Market and Mempool Risks for Traders
According to @Andre_Dragosch, market participants are questioning the need to upgrade to Bitcoin Core v30 or Bitcoin Knots, citing concerns about both spamming and censorship on the BTC network. Source: @Andre_Dragosch on X, Oct 5, 2025. This highlights an active debate over node policy and relay rules in different Bitcoin implementations, which define which transactions are relayed or accepted into mempools and thereby shape fee formation and confirmation latency. Source: Bitcoin Core documentation on mempool policy and transaction relay rules. For trading, divergences or shifts in these policies can change network congestion and fee volatility, influencing on-chain liquidity, exchange deposit and withdrawal costs, and the BTC spot-futures basis. Source: Bitcoin Core fee estimation documentation and Bitcoin on-chain data. Actionable focus: monitor mempool size, effective feerates, and confirmation times via Bitcoin Core RPC (getmempoolinfo, estimatesmartfee), and track miner fee share of block rewards to assess potential tailwinds or headwinds for BTC transaction costs. Source: Bitcoin Core documentation and Bitcoin blockchain data. |
2025-09-30 21:44 |
Bitcoin (BTC) Fees Are the Network’s Spam Filter: BitMEX Research Highlights 17 Years of Effectiveness — Key Trading Implications
According to @BitMEXResearch, Bitcoin transaction fees function as the network’s spam filter and have worked effectively for almost 17 years, underscoring the fee market’s role in curbing low-value floods of transactions. Source: BitMEX Research on X, Sep 30, 2025. This statement aligns with Bitcoin’s design where miners prioritize higher-fee transactions, making spam economically costly and preserving block space for market-rate demand. Source: Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System; Bitcoin Core documentation on transaction selection and mempool policy. For traders moving BTC on-chain, timely settlement typically requires paying the prevailing sat/vB market rate, especially during mempool congestion windows when low-fee transactions face delays or eviction. Source: Bitcoin Core fee estimation and mempool policy documentation. Elevated on-chain fees directly increase miners’ fee revenue share per block, reinforcing prioritization by fee and shaping block space pricing dynamics that traders must account for when planning transfers or arbitrage flows. Source: Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008; Bitcoin Core mining and fee policy documentation. |
2025-08-20 09:14 |
Adam Back Says Bitcoin Will Converge to a Cryptographic Accumulator: What It Means for BTC Fees, Blockspace, and Censorship Resistance
According to @adam3us, as Bitcoin technology improves, cryptographic fungibility should increase and the blockchain will converge to a cryptographic accumulator where transactions become indistinguishable blobs, making censorship and filtering impractical (Source: @adam3us on X, Aug 20, 2025). For traders, his view implies blockspace demand from any use case can still bid for inclusion, so fee dynamics are set by aggregate demand rather than policy-based filtering; monitor mempool congestion, sat/vB fee bands, and miner fee share of revenue as leading signals for BTC volatility and miner income sensitivity (Source: @adam3us on X, Aug 20, 2025). If filtering becomes ineffective as argued, attempts to exclude transaction types would not sustainably suppress fees, keeping attention on fee-market liquidity and on-chain throughput constraints when positioning around BTC catalysts (Source: @adam3us on X, Aug 20, 2025). |
2025-08-19 17:05 |
BTC fee market explained by Satoshi - 3 trading takeaways for 2025 from BitMEX Research
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. |