Bitcoin's average transaction fees fell on Sunday following the network outage, after soaring to a record high the previous day. fourth half.
The average fee paid for Bitcoin per transaction fell to $34.8 on April 21, after hitting an all-time high of $128.45 on the day of the halving, according to YCharts. data. Average transaction fee measures the average fee in USD when a Bitcoin transaction is processed by a miner.
Total Bitcoin transaction fees on April 20 were $81 million, up from $7.7 million the day before. data showed that. The network recorded total fees of $22.37 million on April 21st.
The fee increase coincides with the launch of Casey Rodarmor's Runes protocol, a new token standard similar to BRC-20. Transaction fees increased as individuals rushed to create rune-based meme coins.
There will also be a half block on April 20th. It appears to be from the ViaBTC mining poolAccording to Blockchain.com, this resulted in a base reward of 3.13 BTC ($199,579) and an additional 37.6256 BTC ($2,399,135) in fees for the 3,050 transactions included in the block. tracker.
According to , Bitcoin rose 0.9% and was trading at around $65,700 at the time of publication of this article. The Block price page.
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