Bitcoin miners are super-rich, earn $1,000,000 per hour

Bitcoin miners are presently earning outrageous wages.

What you must know: Such incredible earnings were revealed by Glassnode, an advanced crypto analytic firm showing Bitcoin miners are currently earning $1,000,000 per hour. This is an increase of 185% since the halving.

• The last time miner revenue was this high, was in July 2019. Note that block rewards were twice as high as today.

Metric Description: The total miner revenue (USD Value), i.e. fees plus newly minted coins.

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#Bitcoin miners are currently earning $1,000,000 per hour.

This is an increase of 185% since the halving.

The last time miner revenue was this high, was in July 2019. Note that block rewards were twice as high than today.

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— glassnode (@glassnode) December 28, 2020

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What this means: Bitcoin mining involves the act of solving tasks that come in the form of algorithms in affirming a transaction and fixing it within a block on the blockchain.

• BTC miners who successfully mine a block are paid or rewarded in BTC. BTC miners also help in facilitating the security mechanism of the blockchain network by confirming transaction information or data to the Bitcoin ledger.
• This confirmation process involves solving complex mathematical problems and a lot of computing power. BTC Miners are successfully rewarded with BTC for their contribution to the ledger based on their proof-of-work.

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Recall Nairametrics about a week ago broke the news on the average cost of completing a transaction at the world’s flagship crypto(Bitcoin) market skyrocket again.

Data retrieved from BitInfoCharts revealed Bitcoin’s average transaction cost had risen to $12, printing the highest price level since November 5, when Bitcoin had just started its bull run.

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• At last week’s trading session, the average cost of sending a Bitcoin transaction was valued at just $2.7. That marks an increase of 344% in less than a week.
• The surge in transaction fees is coming at the incredible bullish gains prevailing effect, in which Bitcoin’s price reached a new all-time high of $24,084 and rose by 30% in the past seven days.