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PE64: Ordinals, et al... Bitcoin still BASE MONEY

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2023-05-09

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This is the sixty-fourth video installment from Porkopolis Economics, covering macro and money, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.




Contents


00:00 Intro


00:35 Daily average transaction fees (in dollars)


01:23 Brief history of the chart


06:44 Taproot brought other use cases to BTC network


07:51 Doesn't change the fact: BTC is BASE MONEY


13:30 Layered protocols / Off-chain scaling is different


15:26 Conclusion on base money




Here I look at the average daily transaction fees, in US-dollar terms, for the Bitcoin protocol over its lifetime. Even with the explosion of Ordinals onto the scene these days and the demand for transaction-inclusion (block space) increasing, it does not change the fact that on-chain, mainnet bitcoins - UTXOs - are base money!




Host: Matthew Mezinskis


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