Bitcoin’s latest halving is now complete, seeing miners’ block subsidy rewards drop from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC.

Bitcoin’s fourth halving occurred at block height 840,000, ushering in a new epoch for the network. Hopes of many in the community that the halving would land on the memeable date of 4/20 failed to materialize for the U.S. market as miners appeared to ramp up their hash rate on the network ahead of the subsidy drop.

Bitcoin halvings are programmed to occur automatically every 210,000 blocks — roughly every four years. Once a halving event occurs, miners receive 50% fewer bitcoins as a subsidy reward for every block of transactions they mine and add to the blockchain. However, they continue to earn additional transaction fee rewards for each block mined as normal.

There have …