Fees are set by price-per-byte, not by “big transaction = big fee.”
When blocks aren’t full, the price floor is tiny, so a blob that fills an entire block can ride in for that same low rate—cheap for the sender, but every node must download and keep those extra megabytes forever.
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npub1w7…j0vtt
2025-06-11 01:10:09 CEST
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wss://relay.damus.ioPublished at
2025-06-11 01:10:09 CESTEvent JSON
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