UTXO set size — Bitcoin onchain, per block

How many separate spendable chunks of bitcoin exist right now. Every node has to keep track of all of them, so this is the number that decides how heavy running bitcoin is.

DefinitionCreated minus spent minus provably unspendable. Data-carrier outputs never leave the set, and runestone OP_RETURNs alone account for a few hundred million of them, so counting them would overstate the set by more than 2x at the tip. Core's gettxoutsetinfo and Open Bitcoin Metrics both exclude them, and so does this.

LimitOutputs are not users. A rise can mean adoption or it can mean one exchange fragmenting its balances.

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Network activity How much is the network actually being used?
Transactions in block how many transactions the block carried
Outputs spent chunks of bitcoin consumed in this block
Outputs created new chunks of bitcoin made in this block
All unspent outputs including unspendable the output count without the data-carrier exclusion
UTXO set change whether the set grew or shrank this block
Spent output volume how much bitcoin moved
Non-coinbase output value value created by ordinary transactions
Raw output value value created including the coinbase

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