Fees

The Protocol: Analyzing Runes Impact as Bitcoin Fee Bonanza Fades

RUNING THE PARTY? Bitcoin’s once-every-four-years “halving” was supposed to bring a steep cut in revenue for crypto miners, since their rewards for new data blocks would drop by 50%. Instead, the simultaneous launch of Casey Rodarmor’s new Runes protocol – for minting digital tokens on top of the oldest and largest blockchain – proved so popular that it caused massive […]