Bitcoin is being used more than ever. The 30-day average sits at 673,822 transactions/day as of July 5, the highest reading in Bitcoin's entire 17.5-year history, and it's up +92% year-over-year. Yes, Bitcoin is being used nearly twice as much as it was a year ago. 2026 is the busiest year on record, and it's not close. Comparing apples to apples (Jan 1 → Jul 5 each year), the 2026 YTD daily average is 535,334 transactions per day, up +38.9% versus the same window in 2025. That beats the prior record holder - 2024's 480K - by a comfortable margin. Every previous "peak adoption" year has now been eclipsed by a partial 2026. The acceleration inside the year is the real tell... it's a ramp. Monthly average daily transactions in 2026: January 391K → April 560K → May 645K → June 652K. Throughput stepped up roughly 65% from Q1 to Q2. The breakout is recent and it's steepening, which is why the tail of the chart glows. Cumulative transactions crossed 1.39 billion all-time. It took until May 2024 to cross the first billion, so Bitcoin added its most recent ~390 million in barely 2 years. 43% of every Bitcoin transaction that has ever been confirmed happened after January 2023. Nearly half the network's entire lifetime activity is compressed into its most recent ~15% of calendar time. 2026 alone has already added ~99 million transactions in half a year. The long-run growth rate is absurd by design: from 14 transactions on day one to 1.39B, the cumulative count has compounded at ~187%/year... obviously flattered by a microscopic base... ...but the level growth (raw transactions added per year) is now larger than ever.