# UTXO set counts change between 2025-01-01 and 2025-07-14 P2A: +19 P2TR: +28,167 P2WPKH: -10,993,297 P2WSH: +504,757 P2SH: -1,892,424 P2MS: +592,588 P2PK: -600 P2PKH: -6,881,365 ## 2025-01-01 P2A: 1 P2TR: 57,851,467 P2WPKH: 56,806,770 P2WSH: 1,627,820 P2SH: 14,993,160 P2MS: 2,016,773 P2PK: 45,731 P2PKH: 52,278,323 ## 2025-07-14 P2A: 20 P2TR: 57,879,634 P2WPKH: 45,813,473 P2WSH: 2,132,577 P2SH: 13,100,736 P2MS: 2,609,361 P2PK: 45,131 P2PKH: 45,396,958

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Okay, I'm getting old or something, but can someone explain what people mean when they use the "call me" symbol: 🤙? Clearly it's not "call me" in the contexts that I'm seeing it used.

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If you were at the Las Vegas #bitdevs today and you're owed the nitty gritty details of Pay to Anchor, TRUC transactions, 1p1c, and ephemeral dust, here is the Stack Exchange topic that was referenced:

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What are P2A and ephemeral dust? Please explain in simple terms, without using Lightning Network lingo.
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Curious if this is an unpopular opinion: It was with too hard to get a BIP processed in the past and now people put BIPs on a pedestal. But BIPs are author documents. Especially in Draft stage, they do not present community consensus — they're the authors’ personal recommendation to the Bitcoin community. It seems good to me that we get a few controversial BIPs. It clears up that it's still the readers’ responsibility to make up their mind.