Bitcoin's halving may have split the reward paid to miners in half, but a fierce battle for blockspace generated millions of dollars of payments to miners as the halving commenced. 

In fact, aside from an apparently accidental $3 million overpayment last November, all of Bitcoin's top 10 most valuable blocks have been mined since the halving, as first flagged by X user Clark Moody, in terms of U.S. dollar value at the time the block was mined. The first halving block captured $2.6 million in fees and block rewards alone, nearly taking the top slot, while others were worth $1.3-$2 million. 

Unlike that overpayment, which still stands as Bitcoin's most valuable block, the transactions since the halving were purposeful attempts to capture valuable blockspace.

For example, the …