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As Bitcoin has once again set a new yearly high, hitting prices not seen since May 2018, the amount of daily active users has now surpassed the one million mark, according to data from CoinMetrics.io.
As per the data, June 14 recorded 1.03 million active addresses, destroying the previous record of 906.75K daily active users set on June 6. Cryptocurrency analyst Kevin Rooke was one of the first to notice the milestone, using the opportunity to take a dig at those who say no one uses Bitcoin:
"nOboDY uSeS BiTcOin"
— Kevin Rooke (@kerooke) June 15, 2019
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Rooke gave some more interesting information, stating:
When Bitcoin first broke 1 million active addresses (Nov 27, 2017), 1 BTC was $9,352 and the median tx fee was $3.23.
— Kevin Rooke (@kerooke) June 15, 2019
Yesterday 1 BTC was $8,230 and the median tx fee was $1.33.
The daily active address metric records the number of unique sender and receiver addresses active in a 24 hour period. It’s an important metric as it shows that actual and unique transfers are happening on the network, which is far different than regular transfers to and from exchanges.
The news comes at a time when a recent study by Chainalysis stated that just 1.3% of Bitcoin transactions are payments, with the remaining 98.7% occurring on exchanges.