January was a document month for Bitcoin’s worth and community exercise, with greater than 22.three million distinctive addresses actively sending or receiving BTC over 31 days.
The milestone was noticed by crypto market knowledge aggregator Glassnode, who tweeted that January had seen the very best month-to-month variety of distinctive lively addresses in Bitcoin’s historical past:
#Bitcoin community exercise at ATH.
In January, greater than 22.three million distinctive addresses had been lively within the community sending or receiving $BTC – the very best month-to-month quantity in Bitcoin’s historical past thus far
Chart: https://t.co/yPPOix0KFx pic.twitter.com/yjWwYbRC98
— glassnode (@glassnode) February 1, 2021
January’s spike in exercise beats out the earlier document of greater than 21 million lively addresses from December 2017. Since 2017, the variety of distinctive addresses participating with Bitcoin has not fallen under 10 million per thirty days.
Regardless of the rise in distinctive lively wallets, Glassnode additionally famous the variety of “lively entities” on the Bitcoin community has decreased considerably since spiking into new highs in early January.
Glassnode defines an entity as “a cluster of addresses which might be managed by the identical community entity.”
Bitcoin commerce volumes spiked to document ranges final month as Bitcoin surged previous $30,000 to put up all-time highs close to $42,000 on Jan. eight earlier than posting three weeks of aggressive range-bound consolidation.
On Feb. 2, U.S.-based trade Kraken introduced it had processed extra transactional quantity throughout January 2021 than it had throughout all of 2019, with $56 billion value of property altering palms on the platform final month.
The month noticed quite a few cryptocurrency exchanges expertise outages, with Kraken and Coinbase asserting measures meant to stop future failures within the occasion of surging site visitors and quantity.