Nell's Sum Comes Short | Halvenfall
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2009, the first lightnow: the Fifth Agec. 2140, the Last Dark
975,067

Nell’s Sum Comes Short

Caught by House Fishpond, led by Tamsin Reedwater.
Block 975,067. Link 140 of Book 938 in the Fifth Age.

  • Cheap passage
  • Busier than the day
  • Passage slackens

Nell Pascoe sat on an upturned bucket for the length of one breath, her back to the firebox, and tried to reckon what the gift would buy her boy in boots before the next Halvenfall. The sum would not come out. She stood, knocked the soot from her palms, and went back to the fire before anyone could shout for her.

The block behind this link

Block
975,067
Mined by
F2Pool
Time
2026-11-08, 13:32 UTC
Since the block before
8 min 28 s
Transactions
6,153
Median fee rate
₿0.1/vB
Fees
₿1,121,031
Subsidy
₿312,500,000
Fees as a share of the reward
0.36%
Space taken by data (inscriptions and other marks)
56%
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. 6,153 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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