Affected by the Lightning Network or Bitcoin Thunderbolt, Bitcoin Transaction Fees Surge 12x

BlockBeats News, April 24th, according to OKX's OKExChain data, in the past 12 hours, the average Bitcoin mainnet transaction fee has surged from about 2 sats/vByte to 25 sats/vByte, with a short-term peak reaching 120 sats/vByte.

On-chain monitoring has found that a large number of P2SH UTXO Bundling transactions were concentratedly initiated, due to the Bitcoin Thunderbolt "Boostpad" limited-time airdrop event launched last night and Alkanes Inscription issuance, leading to a significant increase in mining fees.

In previous news, on April 15th, an official press release from HSBC Bank revealed for the first time that Bitcoin Thunderbolt introduced UTXO Bundling and the OP_CAT opcode through a mainnet soft fork, supporting on-chain native asset issuance, transaction acceleration, and smart validation, with measured network efficiency improved by 100–200 times compared to the original chain.