2 hours ago, The bitcoin fees were more than the block subsidy.
https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000001081dd49ade1108f0b5415605249804a0a95a8e63a3f6
This has happened a number of times over this current high-fee period, and is an interesting bit if information that in theory fees alone can sustain the network.
Another fun tidbit. Block 788806 (12.70 BTC fees + subsidy) gave the miner more bitcoin than Block 600000 (12.538BTC) more than 3.5 years ago (which was before the last halvening)
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2023-05-08 18:21:21
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2023-05-08 18:21:21Event JSON
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"content": "2 hours ago, The bitcoin fees were more than the block subsidy. \n\nhttps://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000001081dd49ade1108f0b5415605249804a0a95a8e63a3f6\n\nThis has happened a number of times over this current high-fee period, and is an interesting bit if information that in theory fees alone can sustain the network.\n\nAnother fun tidbit. Block 788806 (12.70 BTC fees + subsidy) gave the miner more bitcoin than Block 600000 (12.538BTC) more than 3.5 years ago (which was before the last halvening)",
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