Transaction Outputs

Bitcoin ScriptPubKey Sizes and UTXO Impact

Full-chain history of non-OP_RETURN output scripts and the 34-byte BIP-110 rule-1 boundary, from the Genesis Block to the canonical chain tip.

Through block #962,770 · 2026-08-16 18:42:00 UTCChecking

Script size is the complete serialized scriptPubKey. Current active candidates are UTXO-eligible rule-1 failures that remain unspent at the live history tip; they are not the fixed all-output UTXO snapshot used on the Output Types page.

Rule-1 failing outputs 6,581,487 0.1815% of 3,626,476,763 non-OP_RETURN outputs

Affected transactions 3,023,349 Transactions containing at least one non-OP_RETURN failure

Cumulative failing value 31,734,389.33678977 BTC Value at creation; not a current balance

Current active candidates 2,710,938 41.1904% of created failures remain unspent

Current active value 1,715,847.75550903 BTC Exact live candidate UTXO state

History and active-state tip 962,770 canonical block · 2026-08-16 18:42 UTC

ScriptPubKey Rule-1 History

Created failures · Monthly · 5Y

Current-active values group today’s unspent candidates by creation month; they are not historical month-end UTXO snapshots.

Non-OP_RETURN script-size distribution

Buckets use complete serialized scriptPubKey bytes. Every bucket above 34 bytes fails the non-OP_RETURN rule-1 boundary.

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Script bytes	Outputs	Share	Script total	Avg script	Rule-1 failures	Failing value
0-34	3,619,895,276	99.8185%	89.75 GB	25 B	0	0.00000000 BTC
101-223	2,760,132	0.0761%	293.81 MB	106 B	2,760,132	569.25766152 BTC
35	2,691,871	0.0742%	94.22 MB	35 B	2,691,871	297,849.84051257 BTC
36-67	909,852	0.0251%	60.38 MB	66 B	909,852	31,434,175.07220961 BTC
68-83	219,589	0.0061%	15.59 MB	71 B	219,589	1,794.73469259 BTC
224-1000	22	0.0000%	6.61 KB	301 B	22	0.06084406 BTC
1001-10000	12	0.0000%	54.75 KB	4.56 KB	12	0.11366000 BTC
84-100	9	0.0000%	836 B	93 B	9	0.25720942 BTC

Created failures by output type

Stable public taxonomy. Failure counts are output counts; affected transactions are deduplicated separately.

Output type	Failing outputs	Share of failures	Failing value	All type outputs	Type failure rate
Bare multisig	2,778,449	42.2161%	1,031.65903230 BTC	2,778,449	100.0000%
P2PK compressed	2,691,571	40.8961%	297,847.82185849 BTC	2,691,571	100.0000%
P2PK uncompressed	887,877	13.4905%	31,434,158.12646626 BTC	887,877	100.0000%
Other nonstandard	212,743	3.2324%	1,351.66898749 BTC	247,197	86.0621%
Unknown witness version	10,847	0.1648%	0.06044523 BTC	95,344	11.3767%

Current active UTXO candidates

Exact unspent candidate state at the canonical history tip, grouped by output type.

Output type	Active candidates	Share of active	Active value	Created failures	Count retention
Bare multisig	2,469,907	91.1089%	60.47819002 BTC	2,778,449	88.8952%
Other nonstandard	185,560	6.8449%	17.60125544 BTC	212,743	87.2226%
P2PK uncompressed	34,358	1.2674%	1,709,632.97330826 BTC	887,877	3.8697%
Unknown witness version	10,847	0.4001%	0.06044523 BTC	10,847	100.0000%
P2PK compressed	10,266	0.3787%	6,136.64231008 BTC	2,691,571	0.3814%

Methodology. The page excludes every output whose first script byte is OP_RETURN (0x6a). Under BIP-110 rule 1, every remaining output passes only when its complete scriptPubKey is at most 34 bytes. Script form, Core relay policy, standardness, spendability, and rule-1 status are separate properties. “Current active” includes only UTXO-eligible rule-1 candidates that remain unspent at the canonical tip; period values group that current state by creation period and do not reconstruct historical UTXO snapshots.