There is a ton of excitement to try to be in the halvening block, so many people put their transactions with a lot of fees to try to be there.

The ones that lost the chance will be queued for the next one, which might explain the large fees for that block.

You can see the differences in sat/vB between these blocks:

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/04/20/j47QG.png

In this case, the "golden" block was mined by ViaBTC, congrats to them!.

Look at mempool, choose a random block and filter for OP_RETURN:

90% of transactions are OP_RETURN and if you click at a random transaction probably is a transaction from a address to the same address like this: https://mempool.space/tx/3bdc9fd75a4afcf6987a751f16eca6e28a92a59cf5673b428136e3171199c355

Bitcoin is no more used as peer to peer cash system! Is used only for memecoins, casino, and layer-2.

Thanks for David Bailey and Segwit developers.

https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp?p=calc

Check this out should help you