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 Bitcoin users attempting to send on-chain BTC transactions are footing the bill for a fresh surge in Ordinals.
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 Bitcoin (BTC) <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="transaction" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/transaction.html">transaction</a> fees are at their highest in nearly six months as a new wave of inscriptions boosts competition for block space.
 Data from statistics resource BitInfoCharts shows the average BTC <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="transaction" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/transaction.html">transaction</a> fee approaching $6 as of Nov. 7.
 <h2 id="ordinals-taking-up-bitcoin-mempool-again">Ordinals taking up Bitcoin mempool again</h2>
 The return of Bitcoin Ordinals is making its presence felt this week as on-chain <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="transaction" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/transaction.html">transaction</a>s attract highly elevated fees.
 In an environment reminiscent of Q2 this year, blockspace is being taken up by ordinal inscriptions.
 Ordinals are nonfungible tokens (NFTs) that store data directly on the blockchain. BRC-20 Ordinals can add significant transaction numbers for Bitcoin miners to process on-chain, clogging up the mempool and resulting in more competition for confirmations.
 The result is that higher fees are required, and <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="transaction" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/transaction.html">transaction</a>s without them will confirm much more slowly than normal.
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 <figcaption style="text-align: center;">Bitcoin Ordinals heatmap (screenshot). Source: GeniiData
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 Per statistics from GeniiData, almost 1 million ordinal “mints” have occurred in the past seven days.
 The most active projects have changed in that time, with the most active minters coming from BEES, gpts and HALV at the time of writing.
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 BRC-20 coin $RATS is clogging up the mempool, causing a significant rise in Bitcoin <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="transaction" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/transaction.html">transaction</a> fees. Can anyone give us more information about this token? pic.twitter.com/O7EAPHy83F— Ordinals Wallet (@ordinalswallet) November 4, 2023
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 Bitcoin’s mempool currently has a backlog of over 120,000 unconfirmed transactions, according to live data from Mempool.space.
 By contrast, at the beginning of October, the queue contained fewer than 30,000.
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 <figcaption style="text-align: center;">Bitcoin mempool data overview (screenshot). Source: Mempool.space
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 <h2 id="increased-profits-for-btc-miners">Increased profits for BTC miners&nbsp;</h2>
 Discussing what might happen to the fee trend next, social media users warned that new minting projects would come to take over once others had completed.
 Related:&nbsp;Elon Musk slams NFTs but ends up arguing the case for Bitcoin Ordinals
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 $BEES have turned mempool into ordhive Fees are now around 70 sats!! We already had $RATS $FOXS $OWLS $BNBS what’s next?! Also, which Bee Collection will take off now that the token is minted out?! pic.twitter.com/PjMJdzRkyA— pawellwitt.xbt (@pawellwitt) November 6, 2023
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 foxs was yesterday, now is the end of bees and next thing coming straight after— Machine 384 (@sascha_bay) November 6, 2023
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 Reaping the benefits, meanwhile, are Bitcoin miners, whose income from fees is rapidly rising.
 According to on-chain analytics firm Glassnode, for Nov. 6, 8.5% of miners’ revenue came from the increased fee rates — the biggest daily proportion since early June.
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 <figcaption style="text-align: center;">Bitcoin miner % revenue from fees chart. Source: Glassnode
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Inordinately high — Bitcoin Ordinals send BTC transaction fees to new 5-month peak

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