# A Fare Rubbed Out

*Link 975,099, link 28 of Book 939 in the Fifth Age. Caught by House Foundry, led by Brannoch Vell. Sun, 08 Nov 2026 21:08:32 UTC.*

Omens: Cheap passage; A king's ransom.

Brannoch Vell stood alone on the Foundry's lamp-floor after the bell, the fare-slate in his fist, and read the figure twice: 170,001 drops a span, paid by one man in a hurry. Across the combe Cinder Brow's chimneys coughed white. He wrote the sum into the Foundry's book in ink, then sat with the pen over the word he'd written beside it, patron, and scraped it out with his thumbnail until the page thinned.

The block: mined by: Foundry USA; time: 2026-11-08, 21:08 UTC; since the block before: 11 min 11 s; transactions: 4,472; median fee rate: ₿1.2/vB; fees: ₿74,585,529; subsidy: ₿312,500,000; fees as a share of the reward: 19.3%; space taken by data (inscriptions and other marks): 34%; coinjoins: none.

Block [975,099](https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000006ef3586862eb45ad5c7c53d814fadca597ad76c320cd) on mempool.space. On the site: https://halvenfall.com/block/975099