Bitcoin’s Network Records an Incredible Number of Wallet Addresses Generated in 2021

Recent data suggests that Bitcoin’s network has approximately 88,365,209 addresses. This figure accounts for the period between January and June 2021. So, in the six months, users created almost 488,206 addresses daily. Is Crypto Adoption Now Mainstream? According to the data, June 2021 had the lowest number of addresses created, while January records the highest. Users in January 2021 made 551,132 addresses, while June had 370,269 addresses created daily. The monthly figure equates to 17,085,095 addresses made in January 2021…

Bitstamp Exchange Now Fully Supports SegWit Bech32 Addresses

On the 27th of February 2020, Bitstamp announced adding full support for SegWit bech32 Bitcoin addresses. The announcement said that all Bitstamp users can now withdraw Bitcoin to bech32 addresses and develop new deposit addresses in this format. In this case, Bitstamp generated new Bitcoin deposit addresses for all its clients. When depositing Bitcoin onto the exchange, Bitstamp users can now choose between the old format or the bech32. Nevertheless, the exchange prefers all users to switch to bech32, claiming…