đź’°Halving Milestone: Block 840,000 Mined, Ushering in a New Chapter as Bitcoin Miners Face Shrinking Rewards
Bitcoin’s latest halving event occurred at block 840,000 which was mined by Viabtc on Friday evening. Additionally, the mining pool SBI Crypto unearthed the final 6.25 BTC block reward at block height 839,999. Starting with block 840,000, the reward has been reduced to 3.125 BTC per block. The mined block also achieved a whopping 37.626 BTC in transaction fees.
đź’°Halving Milestone: Block 840,000 Mined, Ushering in a New Chapter as Bitcoin Miners Face Shrinking Rewards
Bitcoin’s latest halving event occurred at block 840,000 which was mined by Viabtc on Friday evening. Additionally, the mining pool SBI Crypto unearthed the final 6.25 BTC block reward at block height 839,999. Starting with block 840,000, the reward has been reduced to 3.125 BTC per block. The mined block also achieved a whopping 37.626 BTC in transaction fees.
The lead from Wall Street offers little clarity as the major averages opened lower on Friday and then bounced back and forth across the unchanged line, finally finishing mixed and little changed.The Dow added 33.18 points or 0.10 percent to finish at 34,798.00, while the NASDAQ eased 4.54 points or 0.03 percent to close at 15,047.70 and the S&P 500 rose 6.50 points or 0.15 percent to end at 4,455.48. For the week, the Dow rose 0.6 percent, the NASDAQ added 0.1 percent and the S&P gained 0.5 percent.The lackluster performance on Wall Street came on uncertainty about the outlook for the markets following recent volatility.
How to Invest in Bitcoin?
Like a stock, you can buy and hold Bitcoin as an investment. You can even now do so in special retirement accounts called Bitcoin IRAs. No matter where you choose to hold your Bitcoin, people’s philosophies on how to invest it vary: Some buy and hold long term, some buy and aim to sell after a price rally, and others bet on its price decreasing. Bitcoin’s price over time has experienced big price swings, going as low as $5,165 and as high as $28,990 in 2020 alone. “I think in some places, people might be using Bitcoin to pay for things, but the truth is that it’s an asset that looks like it’s going to be increasing in value relatively quickly for some time,” Marquez says. “So why would you sell something that’s going to be worth so much more next year than it is today? The majority of people that hold it are long-term investors.”
