Wet Sacks on the Glass | Halvenfall
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2009, the first lightnow: the Fifth Agec. 2140, the Last Dark
975,062

Wet Sacks on the Glass

Caught by the Tide House, led by Maudry Kell.
Block 975,062. Link 135 of Book 938 in the Fifth Age.

  • Cheap passage
  • Busier than the day
  • Passage slackens

Maudry Kell roared down the Tide House lamp-floor for wet sacks to go over the glass-pot before it cracked, and her stokers slapped them on with steam hissing off their sleeves. The link came up clean on the turn of the tide, and 5,449 travellers crossed at a tenth of a drop a span.

The block behind this link

Block
975,062
Mined by
OCEAN
Time
2026-11-08, 12:40 UTC
Since the block before
3 min 43 s
Transactions
5,449
Median fee rate
₿0.1/vB
Fees
₿931,969
Subsidy
₿312,500,000
Fees as a share of the reward
0.30%
Space taken by data (inscriptions and other marks)
62%
Coinjoins
none

What the omens mean

  • Cheap passage. Fees were low: the median fee rate was ₿0.1/vB, under ₿1.5/vB.
  • Busier than the day. 5,449 transactions, half again the last day's usual or more.
  • Passage slackens. The median fee rate (₿0.1/vB) was about half the last day's usual.
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