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 When you go to open some channels today and fees are $44 and you see this… https://i.nostr.build/jYlJE.jpg  
 Just wait and open the channel on another day 🤪 
 what happend? did i miss something? 
 Trying to find out too. 

Prob just a mix of things (pools pumping fees [for whatever reason], [possibly] Mt. Gox payouts, inscription / ordinal nonsense, etc. 
 will be over in some days i guess and we will be back to 50 sats/vbyte 
 On yeah this will be back to "normal" by Sunday morning 
 Looks like a ton of inscriptions. Thats what those huge blocks are. 
 It does yes. Should be cleared by end of weekend. 

Glad to have hashes rn! 
 Those large, uniform size block transactions are the typical sign of someone cramming tons of bullshit jpegs into the chain. 
 Turns out I was wrong. Someone’s creating tons of same size consolidation transactions. Rumors are it’s from OKX and they are auto outbidding themselves to get into blocks… 🤣

Someone might be getting a bad employee review, lol 
 avoid cues/don't hurry to wait! 
 let it come to u 
 OKX is consolidating some of their UTXOs paying north of 500sat/vB.

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq3huhccxt6h34eupz3jeynjgjgek8lel2f4adaea0svyk94a3njdqy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mz7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhx27rfwsh8qatz9uqzqq7v4a02s2v4s9veuw7gm7u5fxu8mjhfhd8gt94zcyxfe24nk0mfp3mlze 
 But why? 
 Why all at once? 
 Insert “oh no…it’s retarded” meme 
 all those big uglies seem to be consolidation txs. What is the use case there? Is it known? To me the numbers just don't jive. Why would it be worth burning that much corn to get these particular txs thru? 
 Yeah someone was showing me in the Audionauts. I’ve never seen that of such consistent sizes before. 99% of the time it has always been jpegs. Thats a LOT of consolidation 🤣