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 The MARA block, a ‎1.722 BTC or $122,544 advertisement. 

https://void.cat/d/QdonUmxSXEsqG9reJrS2Fp.webp

https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000341cc26cda4af82cd25f7063c448772228cbf2836915b?audit=false
 
 No entiendo el dinero que gastan para lograr algo así, se podría usar en tantas cosas 🙈 
 What are they advertising? Stock?  
 WTF 😅 
 This is not about advertising. This is about Power Projection 
 Eh. Any miner that wins a block can do this.  
 What a flex! A weird one, but impressive. I kinda don't like the fact that it basically reduced the space on the chain for real txs, but it's about the same as mining an empty block, which has been done a lot before. 
 that's a little bit crazy and fun.
drawing something on the block itself is cool tho  
 I heard Apple is next 
 What a waste of block space. They won the block so jokes on them for the fee loss vs very little insider eyeballs that would see the actual message… 
 i assume they paid themselves the transaction fees. these are all their 0 BTC transactions, only paying the fees to be included in the block and displayed on mempool.space in this fee based manner. 
 Yeah, the cost is the $12K-$25K in fees they didn't earn from real transactions.