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Transactions per day in 2016

On-chain bitcoin transactions confirmed per day, seven-day average.

Transactions per day opened 2016 at 164,755/day (January 1, 2016) and closed at 269,416/day (December 31, 2016), up 63.5%. The high was 291,478/day on December 8, 2016 and the low 157,899/day on January 3, 2016.

Transactions per day, month by month in 2016

MonthMonth end
January 2016214,658/day
February 2016224,362/day
March 2016184,660/day
April 2016230,922/day
May 2016211,663/day
June 2016215,943/day
July 2016224,429/day
August 2016218,430/day
September 2016229,152/day
October 2016245,294/day
November 2016291,394/day
December 2016269,416/day

How many transactions the network confirms each day. Blockspace is fixed, so when demand rises the queue lengthens and fees go up rather than the count rising without limit.

Other years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

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 · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price · What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market

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