I jumped on a quick (and honestly messy) livestream because we started seeing some major VRSC block rewards hit the network—blocks were spiking up to around 58 VRSC. The reason was simple: the Ethereum bridge went live, and every time a bridge like that activates, 5,000 VRSC gets added into the fee pool. That fee pool is funded by taking 1% across the ecosystem, and then it pays out over time so it’s not just one lucky miner scooping the whole thing in a single block. In the stream I walked through why I’m building my Orange Pi 5 cluster and how I think about ROI in a bear market. I used my current target build as an example: ~850 MH/s at ~1100 watts, about a $9,000 build cost, and then I ran different “average reward” scenarios. I also explained the bigger play: merge mining. When new chains launch inside the Verus ecosystem, you can merge mine up to 22 chains at once without extra power or losing hash, and you can mine + stake those coins since most chains keep a 50/50 PoW/PoS split. The takeaway is: when these fee bursts happen, I turn on everything I can—CPUs, extra rigs, even GPUs—because those are the windows where extra hash can really pay.