Bitcoin Inscriptions nearing 5M: miner’s future earnings amid economic uncertainty
Explore the surge in blockchain inscriptions and consider the implications this trend will have for miners' revenue.
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Quick Take
- Inscriptions which is the process of writing data into the blockchain via the Witness portion of a Bitcoin transaction.
- The total count of Inscriptions is now approaching 5 million; as you can see, it predominately comes from text-based inscriptions.
- Inscriptions have also generated a cumulative fee of 904 Bitcoin.
- This benefits miner tremendously, but is this here to stay? If a true recession were to occur, would we still see the demand?



