<p>The blame is on BRC-20, a terribly inefficient token protocol built on Ordinals that saw a lot of use during that time. BRC-20 requires a huge number of small transactions, which drives down the average transaction size and consequently increases the number of transactions per block.</p>

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Vojtěch Strnad
<p><a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/122290/34190">I noticed</a> that there was a jump in the number of transactions per block (from ~2000 to ~3000) in April-May 2023.</p>
<p>The size of the serialised UTXO set also ~doubled from ~5GB to ~10GB over the following year (based on <a href="https://statoshi.info/d/000000009/unspent-transaction-output-set?orgId=1&amp;from=1553108400000&amp;to=1710979200000" rel="nofollow noreferrer">charts at satoshi.info</a>).</p>
<p>What reasons might there be?</p>

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Why was there a jump in transactions per block in 2023?
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# Why was there a jump in transactions per block in 2023?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-03-14)

[I noticed](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/122290/34190) that there was a jump in the number of transactions per block (from ~2000 to ~3000) in April-May 2023.

The size of the serialised UTXO set also ~doubled from ~5GB to ~10GB over the following year (based on [charts at satoshi.info](https://statoshi.info/d/000000009/unspent-transaction-output-set?orgId=1&from=1553108400000&to=1710979200000)).

What reasons might there be?

**Tags:** transactions, block, blocksize, transaction-weight, ordinals


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2024-03-14. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

The blame is on BRC-20, a terribly inefficient token protocol built on Ordinals that saw a lot of use during that time. BRC-20 requires a huge number of small transactions, which drives down the average transaction size and consequently increases the number of transactions per block.


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