'XMR20' spends ~0.6 XMR block reward to inject ~598 KB music video in Monero blockchain

tory [..] 598,945 bytes of that transaction sit in tx_extra, a field Monero nodes relay only up to 1,060 bytes; At 565 times the limit, it could never pass through the mempool. So we built it into the block’s own coinbase transaction and mined block 3,799,494 ourselves [..] The pool has stopped mining for now; the block stays. 5 The block was automatically penalised and the miner only received ~0.00399 XMR instead of the default ~0.6 XMR block reward, due to the ~1 KB tx_extra maximum size limit that was implemented to mitigate damage done by Mordinals/NFTs in 2023 6 . Consult the previous Monero Observer reports 7 to learn more about this story. This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available. https://xmr20.org/ ↩ https://xmr20.org/mine/ ↩ https://moneroblocks.info/tx/5aaa33278d1c4f318ffc8512ea5466440a6023f7087998b31ad011ed42920f9b ↩ https://moneroblocks.info/block/3799494 ↩ https://x.com/XMR20_org/statu