Battle For The Halving Block: Bitcoin Users Spend Record $2.4 Million On Block 840,000

Battle For The Halving Block: Bitcoin Users Spend Record $2.4 Million On Block 840,000
With Bitcoin finally completing its fourth-year halving cycle, many users are aggressively competing for halving blocks, paying exorbitant amounts of fees to mine a single block.  Bitcoin Mining Pool Pays Over $2.4 Million In Block Fees Earlier today, the 840,000th block was added to the Bitcoin blockchain, triggering the onslaught of the highly anticipated halving event. While the price of BTC did not witness a dramatic change following the halving, transaction fees spiked to unprecedented highs.  Related Reading: Ripple CEO Walks Back $5 Trillion Crypto Marker Prediction, Unveils New Target Amidst the massive competition, a mining pool identified as ViaBTC had successfully mined the 840,000th Bitcoin block. Cumulatively, BTC users had spent a staggering $37.7 BTC in mining fees, equivalent to $2.4 million, recording the highest fee ever paid for a Bitcoin block.  According to reports from mempool, after ViaBTC had produced the 840,000th block, the protocol had initiated an automated reduction of miners’ reward by half, from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC per block. In addition to the fees, ViaBTC had received a total payout of 40.7 BTC, valued at approximately $2.6 milli ..

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