A Heron Cut for Patience | Halvenfall
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975,064

A Heron Cut for Patience

Caught by House Spider, led by Ilse Thornmere.
Block 975,064. Link 137 of Book 938 in the Fifth Age.

  • Cheap passage
  • Busier than the day
  • Passage slackens

On Scriveners’ Lane Bede Lanyard cut a heron standing on one leg in the reeds, its beak aimed at a single drop of light. The mark said that passage paid in full was patience paid for, and no more. A salt-carter read it, nodded, and paid for the mark in copper.

The block behind this link

Block
975,064
Mined by
SpiderPool
Time
2026-11-08, 13:02 UTC
Since the block before
8 min 8 s
Transactions
8,892
Median fee rate
₿0.1/vB
Fees
₿579,061
Subsidy
₿312,500,000
Fees as a share of the reward
0.18%
Space taken by data (inscriptions and other marks)
80%
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. 8,892 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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