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Active addresses in 2016

How many bitcoin addresses were active on chain each day.

Active addresses opened 2016 at 316,781/day (January 1, 2016) and closed at 569,619/day (December 31, 2016), up 79.8%. The high was 761,638/day on December 7, 2016 and the low 316,781/day on January 1, 2016.

Active addresses, month by month in 2016

MonthMonth end
January 2016484,082/day
February 2016563,571/day
March 2016425,668/day
April 2016442,245/day
May 2016480,865/day
June 2016506,917/day
July 2016490,761/day
August 2016497,832/day
September 2016548,051/day
October 2016587,693/day
November 2016632,745/day
December 2016569,619/day

Addresses that sent or received bitcoin that day, from Coin Metrics. It is the plainest measure of how many people are using the network, and it has tracked the price loosely through every cycle.

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Also in 2016: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · Network hashrate · Mining difficulty · Difficulty adjustments · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price

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