ETH miners' profit has reached $1.37 billion and exceeded the profit from BTC mining – Bits Media

February was extremely successful for Bitcoin miners, and for the miners of the ether - both categories received a record profit, Moreover, the profit for the extraction of ETH for the first time in history exceeded $1 billion.

In February, ETH miners received $1.37 billion, What's on 65.1% exceeds the indicators january. At the same time, the profit from the commissions grew immediately on 122.1%. The miners received the ether $644.4 million for the production of blocks and $722.8 million from transactions commissions. For the first time, transactions commissions brought miners more money, than rewards for block production.

Bitcoin miners were in second place in terms of profit - for February it was received $1.36 billion. At the same time, the structure of income between two groups of miners varies markedly - when the BTC is mined in total 13.7% profit was received from the commissions. In this way, $1.18 billion billion of Bitcoin miners received from awards for the production of a block, and the profit from the commissions for the transaction was $186.4 million.

By mid -February, Bitcoin miners received about 1 BTC from the commissions for transaction when mining.