The congestion on the Bitcoin network is leading to a veritable boom in earnings for those who mine.
In fact, according to TimeChainStats data, miners cashed in an average of almost 11.2 BTC for every single block mined yesterday.
Suffice it to say that by 1 May this figure was just over 6.5, of which 6.25 was due to the premium that the protocol gives miners by creating exactly 6.25 new BTCs with each block.
On 22 April, the average revenue per block was 6.35 BTC, or just 0.1 BTC more than the premium.
How do miners make money?
Miners have two different sources of revenue.
The first is the premium, i.e. the 6.25 BTC that the protocol currently allows them to create out of thin air with each block.
The second is the fees that each user pays when they want to send their bitcoins to someone else.
The two sources are added together and it is then possible to calculate the total average revenue per block. Of this, 6.25 BTC will always be the premium, while the others are the fee
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