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📈 Transaction Volume Spike Ordinals—essentially NFTs on Bitcoin—embed data (like images/text) directly into individual sats via inscriptions. This creates larger transaction sizes, pushing block space demand higher, especially during inscription minting waves. ⛓️ Network Congestion Effects When Ordinals traffic spikes, mempool fills up quickly, leading to longer confirmation times for standard BTC transactions. Non-Ordinal users (e.g., simple transfers) may be priced out or face delays unless paying higher fees. 💰 Fee Market Dynamics Base layer fees have increased significantly during Ordinals booms—sometimes hitting >200 sats/vB, compared to typical 10–20 sats/vB. Miners benefit from higher fees, but user experience suffers, especially for low-priority or microtransactions. 🧠 Strategic Implications Sparked renewed debate about Bitcoin’s role: store of value vs. data layer.

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