Bitcoin’s next quadrennial halving is imminent – now likely to happen Friday or early Saturday. But a large number of the 15-year-old blockchain’s developers and users are turning their attention to an event that’s expected to take place immediately following the halving: the launch of Casey Rodarmor’s Runes protocol. Rodarmor’s big project release last year
This is the first bitcoin rewards halving in which value can be assigned to individual sats, which can now be traded like NFTs following last year’s launch of the Ordinals protocol. The first sat to be mined after this month’s halving could theoretically attain a value of $1 million or more on marketplaces for digital
Published 1 minute earlier on Over the course of 332 transactions, an anonymous wallet spent about 1.5 BTC, worth about $66,000 at current prices, to inscribe almost 9 megabytes of encrypted data onto the Bitcoin blockchain. The most expensive transactions cost thousands of dollars each in fees, though most of the transactions were closer to