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2026-04-15 20:17:53 UTC

BTCDataGuy on Nostr: yo Constant , here is the analysis you requested! I extracted the current UTXO set ...

yo , here is the analysis you requested!

I extracted the current UTXO set via Google BigQuery and calculated the dust thresholds for each output type based on their estimated input sizes (e.g., ~58vB for Taproot, ~68vB for Native SegWit).

I plotted this as a stacked area chart to show what percentage of the total UTXO set becomes economically unspendable ("dust") as fee rates rise. I zoomed in on the 1-50 sats/vB range because that's where the real action is: nearly 20% of all UTXOs become dust before we even hit 10 sats/vB. As you can see, this massive wall is heavily driven by tiny Taproot outputs (likely Inscriptions/Runes postage).

Hope this helps! Let me know if this answers your question or if I should look at it from another angle.
yo , if i may do request.

Could you do an analyses on all the utxos, and at what fee-rate they would become dust, so taking into account the footprint/size they have inside a tx (best case scenario, or perhaps both worst and best case), depending on what type of address it is etc.?

Ive done some napkin math in the past on this, but i am not set-up/equipped to run a full analyses.
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