These operations with low rate rates mainly include inscriptions op_return and runes.
Other pools such as Spiderpool, F2pool, Mara Pool and Luxor also adopt that strategy.
Antpool, one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools in the world, joined the practice that in social networks have called “summer -1 sat/vb”, a trend between miners that seeks to include transactions with extremely low rates, of 1 satoshi by virtual byte (sat/vb) or less, in the mined blocks.
As cryptoics reported, that trend is gaining ground among miners, especially For transactions containing inscriptions op_returna type of operation that stores data in the Bitcoin network without transferring bitcoins (BTC).
Other pools that have adopted this strategy are Spiderpool, F2pool, Mara Pool and Luxor, reflecting a change in mining priorities towards new strategies.
The block 906032mined by antpool, exemplifies that behavior. This block presented A medium rate of approximately 1 sat/vbequivalent to 0.17 dollars, with a range of rates that ranged between 0.00 and 552 SAT/VB.
This range indicates the variability in rates paid by the transactions included, where Some operated practically without cost.
For example, Antpool included two operations that contained registrations created by the Runes protocol, which allows you to issue fungible tokens in Bitcoin, and paid 0 commissions per block space.
One of those transactions was in the operation identified with the hash 7acc7d5491Ef7d24189D35DAC612D206CDAF04D44B04F8AD32E958FEF7639574, as seen in the following image:
These inscriptions did not pay commissions for the block space, which highlights how miners are prioritizing the inclusion of low -cost transactions, even when they involve new protocols.
This new practice of miners is related to op_return inscriptions that they generate or that come from projects with those who would have direct agreements, which limits its accessibility for common users.
In such a way, this behavior of the miners could be attributed to a possible Experimental Mining Strategyin which they explore the inclusion of data or tokens at the expense of giving up rates, challenging the traditional economic norms of the Bitcoin protocol.
