ViaBTC’s halving-block win still matters because it turned a protocol milestone into a collectible story with lasting cultural value. For regular BTC holders, the episode is a reminder that some blocks matter for collector demand and Bitcoin history, not only for price.
Why the halving block still stands out
ViaBTC said on April 23, 2024 that it successfully mined Bitcoin block #840,000 on April 20, 2024. That mattered because the block marked a halving, the point where new supply was cut again and the network entered a new issuance era.
The same ViaBTC announcement said the block yielded one of only four epic rare satoshis and that the company planned to auction it exclusively with CoinEx. In other words, the mining pool did not just find a halving block. It found a rare sat directly tied to that milestone.
How public data still proves the sat’s identity
The Ordinal Theory Handbook defines an epic sat as the first sat of each halving epoch. Ordinals still lists sat 1968750000000000 as decimal 840000.0, with offset 0, timestamp 2024-04-20 00:09:27 UTC, and rarity epic.
Mempool.space shows the same block hash as 0000000000000000000320283a032748cef8227873ff4872689bf23f1cda83a5, records the block time as 1713571767, and lists 3,050 transactions with a weight of 3,993,281. A separate ViaBTC notice from April 22, 2024 said the block also carried 37.6256 BTC in transaction fees, which helps explain why miners and Ordinals collectors treated it as more than a routine block.
Why the flashback still lands with Bitcoin readers
CoinGecko currently shows Bitcoin near $75,753 with a market capitalization around $1.52 trillion. Those numbers explain why a sat linked to a halving block still draws attention: it belongs to an asset that has grown into a global market, even as Bitcoin’s price recovery faces macro headwinds.
Back around the halving, supply narratives were everywhere, and Bitcoin whales bought 270K BTC in 30 days captures how accumulation stories shaped the market backdrop. That context helps explain why a milestone sat could command attention far beyond the Ordinals niche.
How the market put a price on the epic sat
Collector demand became measurable on April 25, 2024, when Cointelegraph reported the epic sat sold for 33.3 BTC. That sale turned the Ordinals label into a real market result rather than a niche community badge.
The episode also showed that Bitcoin can carry more than payments and store-of-value narratives. It can also host collector objects and infrastructure experiments, a broader shift that rhymes with USDC moving deeper into crypto settlement infrastructure as blockchain networks keep taking on new roles.
For everyday readers, the practical takeaway is simple: this flashback is easy to verify and hard to dismiss. The sat is still visible on Ordinals, the block is still visible on Mempool.space, and the combination shows how a single halving block became part of Bitcoin history, mining lore, and collector culture at the same time.
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