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These days getting a 4kb image into the blockchain would cost you around 44 USD.

i.e. 4096 x 200 satoshi fee = 819200 satoshis about .00819200 BTC.

Add approximately a 50% overhead in the way you would need to store that image and you're looking at about .016 BTC.

transactions have been going through for a several weeks with 1-20 satoshi per byte. Unless you're in a hurry to get that image in a block, you can do it for 10 to 200 times cheaper than quoted price.

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