COINDESK · 2026-11-09 16:19 UTC

A bitcoin block just neared a 2015 transaction record, but paid only $180 in fees

AntPool mined block 974,961 on Saturday with 11,255 transactions, the second-busiest block ever, 984 short of the 2015 record. Those transactions paid 240,533 satoshis in fees, about $180 at Sunday's price near $75,800, while the miner's total payout was about $237,000, nearly all the fixed 3.125 BTC subsidy. The median fee rate in the block rounds to zero, with a sample showing 80-byte transactions each paying a single satoshi, below the Bitcoin Core 29.1 default relay floor.

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