# Bitcoin (BTC) Transaction Count Climbs as SegWit Packs Blocks By Enna Lee Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/42396 Published: 2026-10-28T06:17:58.000Z Updated: 2026-10-28T06:17:58.000Z Section: Investing > Bitcoin averaged 700,000 to 800,000 confirmed transactions a day in October 2026. The average fee per transaction was about $0.32 in late October. Bitcoin (BTC) averaged 700,000 to 800,000 confirmed transactions a day in October 2026, but the activity mix suggests the increase may reflect more efficient use of block space rather than a comparable rise in demand. The daily average was about 372,000 in January 2025. In October 2026, blocks were about 98% full and averaged roughly 1.5 megabytes. The average fee per transaction in late October 2026 was about $0.32. Payments under 0.01 BTC made up about 80% of network activity. SegWit discounts witness data in some transactions; BTC amount alone does not establish transaction data size. The high transaction count alone does not establish that Bitcoin gained a similar number of users; repeated activity and small payments can raise the total without showing how many people transacted. Segregated Witness, or SegWit, helps explain how more transactions fit. Activated in August 2017, it changed block accounting to a limit of 4 million weight units. Witness data, including transaction signatures, counts less toward that limit than other transaction data. That discount increases effective throughput for transactions that use it, without increasing Bitcoin’s core capacity. The $0.32 figure is an average fee per transaction, a different measure from [aggregate Bitcoin fees in Q3 2026](). An average describes the fee on a transaction; an aggregate total measures fees collected by miners over a period. Neither measure by itself counts users or transfers. Miners receive newly issued Bitcoin through the block subsidy as well as transaction fees. The subsidy declines over time, leaving fees expected to cover a larger share of the network’s security costs. Miner fee revenue has declined despite the higher transaction count, underscoring that more transfers do not necessarily mean higher fee income for miners. ## Links in this article - [aggregate Bitcoin fees in Q3 2026](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/32695)