Bitcoin24h $102,683.10-0.78%

Ethereum24h $2,282.42-5.88%

XRP24h $2.07-2.41%

BNB24h $631.88-1.74%

Solana24h $135.73-3.35%

TRON24h $0.2725-0.19%

Dogecoin24h $0.1560-4.40%

Cardano24h $0.5535-5.54%

Hyperliquid24h $34.12-1.87%

Bitcoin Cash24h $463.54-1.75%

This Bitcoin halving is the most expensive ever

This year is an especially rich Bitcoin halving, with Runes and the so-called ‘Epic Sat’ adding speculative fervor to global celebrations.

Could Bitcoin Ordinals give rise to rare sats futures market?

Following the launch of Bitcoin Ordinals early last year, individual and potentially rare sats can now be numbered and traded like NFTs.

The founder of Bitcoin Ordinals and their NFT-like Inscriptions is launching a fungible token standard and BRC-20 competitor called Runes.

Bitcoin Core developer and miner Luke Dashjr is also the sole administrator of the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal upgrade process.

Marathon had to forgo some transaction fee revenue to carefully craft its bitcoin block image with less competitively priced transactions.