According to mempool data, the priority transaction fee in the Bitcoin network has risen to 357 sats/byte, with a single transfer fee of 21 USDT, and there are currently 251,318 unconfirmed transactions.

Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr responded to a user's comment on social media stating "Bitcoin protocol Stamp will not be pruned", saying that this is just another scam.

A compilation of evidence that Hal Finney and Satoshi Nakamoto were different people.

According to a report by blockchain data company CryptoQuant on Thursday, more than 1,000 bitcoins from early miners were transferred to exchanges and custody platforms on December 4th. These bitcoins were transferred between August and November 2010 and were mined through block rewards, with an estimated total cost of $100.

On December 7th, PANews reported that over the past three years, a new generation of "hodlers" has emerged in the Bitcoin market due to persistent investors refusing to sell their Bitcoin. Data shows that the proportion of tokens that have not moved in two to three years has significantly increased in the overall supply since the bear market hit bottom at the end of 2022. In December of last year, this group of investors accounted for about 8% of the total supply, but now the proportion has exceeded 15%. Currently, those who purchased BTC between December 2020 and December 2021 have resisted the urge to sell for large profits, despite Bitcoin's 165% increase in value this year.

The evolution of the Bitcoin blockchain marks a dawn of innovation beyond the cryptocurrency’s original purpose as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. A notable development in this progressive landscape is the advent of token standards — blueprints that facilitate the creation of new digital assets on a blockchain. Among these, the Bitcoin blockchain has seen the birth of an intriguing new player: the BRC-20 token standard. This innovative framework is setting the stage for a wider array of possibilities for Bitcoin, expanding its capacity beyond mere currency to a new horizon of digital assets and tokenization.

According to the latest K33 research report, the speed at which Bitcoin prices recover to historical highs will "significantly accelerate" during this cycle. K33 senior analyst Vetle Lunde and Vice President Anders Helseth stated that the decline has lasted for 755 days so far, and currently, it is about 36% lower than the historical high of Bitcoin set in November 2021 (about $69,000). In comparison, it took 1,178 days to recover to the previous high point after 2013, and 1,092 days after 2017.

Data released by IntoTheBlock shows that the current number of Bitcoin addresses has exceeded 50 million, which is an important milestone and has grown by more than 17% since the beginning of the year.

On December 6th, according to official sources, Bitcoin Core v26.0 has been officially released, adding experimental support for the v2 transmission protocol defined in BIP324. In addition, nodes with multiple reachable networks will actively try to establish at least one external connection in each network, which increases the individual resistance of nodes to partition attacks and the network-level resistance to partition attacks. Users no longer need to take active measures to ensure connection to multiple enabled networks. The new version also adds "loadtxoutset", which allows loading UTXO snapshots in the format generated by "dumptxoutset".

According to Whale Alert monitoring, 2,999 BTC (worth $130,985,497) was transferred from an unknown wallet to a new wallet.