it's been 3.5 hours and 22 blocks later and the last block was still worth over 20BTC
latest block at time of posting
most expensive TX in block
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/01e09f92619b96a616a9c2cf9e746393c466fdca4cc4f7c4bb038109cf0b3256
has taint from block 840k
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/ad69d620aa24d2219bade5536ed842e2127757ac4665817d6c0efd01cbe4cdb1
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/BTC/243075989d985e3e637b0138bf40684a0905fa2ad3271b2aa54c3da379f15554
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/bc1pdkhzwe3q4e2mn7ylyjgw7h48uj6uyq3vh2zf032l9ykkmj32007smqcavu
as you can see now they are trying to spam the new junk(same crap as ordinals) but using the 840k 'rarity' nonsense crap
To be honest, i never seen such high fees at mempool before, over a 1000Sats/vbyte
At first thought that after the halving some miners may be shut down, resulting in the backlog of the transaction but later i found out it was because of Runes, this fee spike.
Miners must be enjoying this while the rest of us are just waiting for the dust to settle.
