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During bitcoin’s extraordinary price peaks in March, this week saw the mining of the biggest block by byte size, with Marathon’s mining pool producing a 3.99 megabyte (MB) block. This block, labeled as 832,849, carried a message linked to the Runestone airdrop. Bitcoin Blockchain Witnesses Unprecedented 4 MB Block Over the recent weekend, Marathon, aSource link

Traders swapped over $11 billion worth of digital assets on Solana last week, smashing through a previous record set in December.Source link

While bitcoin reached a 2024 high on Monday, rising above the $67,000 per unit range, Coinbase suffered an issue again where customers were seeing zero balances. The news follows the issues Coinbase suffered on Feb. 28, 2024, when customers saw zero balances that day as well. Coinbase Users Encounter Zero Balance Bug Again Coinbase’s tradingSource link

Bitcoin's price targets $70,000 in the short term and could reach a new all-time high as soon as this week, analysts said.Source link

Every four years, the amount of Bitcoin awarded to miners is halved, an event known as the Bitcoin halving.Source link