Benzinga – In a historic milestone for the cryptocurrency industry, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) surpassed 1 billion on-chain transactions, 15 years after its launch by the pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
What happened: According to Clark Moody’s BItcoin dashboard, the all-time tally hit 1,000,373,355 at the time of publication, at an average rate of 6 transactions per second over the past 30 days.
Bitcoin clocked more than 15 million transactions in the last month, significantly boosted by the halving day Runes frenzy, which sent demand for the blockspace soaring.
The pivotal event was also cheered by Michael Saylor, a well-known Bitcoin proponent and one of the biggest owners of the digital currency.
Bitcoin, however, was slower than Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), which has processed nearly 2.4 billion transactions at the time of writing, as per Etherscan data….
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