The headline is misleading.
You can say that there are 27m minority fork sats of fee on the minority side, however, it's not possible to say it's valued at $17,400. That presumes that the USD exchange rate is at parity across both chains. The info that can be gleaned from the minority fork block subsidy and/or txn fees can only be denominated in minority fork tokens currently.
There have to be people exchanging bitcoin or dollars for the minority chain token in order to be able to denominate in USD.
Used to seeing better info from this npub.
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