Monthly Update: Small & Solo Bitcoin Mining – April 2026 Edition After February’s dip to ~1.6%, the small & solo mining share recovered and stabilized around ~2.0% in April. Still far below the 2025 highs, but at least the slide has paused for now. Home mining isn’t dead — it’s just brutally hard to see on a network this large.
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.
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