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Just recently, Bitcoin underwent its most recent halving event. As usual, this meant a 50% reduction in block subsidy rewards for all miners.
Halving events are generally seen as bullish for bitcoin’s market price; however, the immediate effect is a drop in revenue for those mining bitcoin.
That’s not all that’s different with Bitcoin, though. New protocols are changing the way users engage with the network, pushing up fees and, in many ways, offsetting the losses that come with a halving. Unfortunately, this is also causing issues with blockspace and network congestion.
Many Bitcoiners argue against bringing Ordinals, Runes and other meta-protocols to Bitcoin because they…
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