Monday April 22, 2024
At 8:09 PM (EST) on Friday evening ViaBTC minted the 840,000 block, completing bitcoin’s halving and the start of the fifth epoch. ViaBTC earned the first newly reduced reward of 3.125 BTC (~$200,000), but surprisingly they also received an additional 37.625 BTC (~$2.4 million) in fees (gas) to add the 3,050 transactions into the block.
This hefty fee…
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