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The BTC Halving's Grave Warning

Bitcoin likely can't keep on with business as usual.
The BTC Halving's Grave Warning
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Bitcoin’s 4th Halving in the books, with the event programmatically slashing the network’s inflationary BTC block reward by 50% to 3.125 BTC per block.

Despite concerns that this Halving’s emissions reduction would result in a drop to hashrate, leading to lower levels of economic security – Runes and their profound impact appear to have pushed off this concern.

Bitcoin miners derive revenues from two components of the block reward: inflationary BTC emissions and transaction fees. The emission component of their income was halved on Friday, yet net transaction fees surged as onchain participants began minting and trading this latest generation of fungible tokens on Bitcoin.

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Jack Inabinet

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Jack Inabinet is a Senior Analyst with a passion for exploring the bleeding edge of crypto and finance. Prior to joining Bankless, Jack worked as an analyst at HAL Real Estate where he conducted market research and financial analysis for commercial apartment development and acquisition activities in the Seattle region. He graduated from the University of Washington’s Michael G. Foster School of Business.

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