According to The Block Research, in March, the total income of miners mining bitcoins amounted to $ 380.1 million, which is 25% lower than in February.
The indicator is calculated based on the conditions that miners sold all mined coins immediately after receiving them at the currentFor comparison, in 2019 , prospectors earned $5 billion, and in 2018 - $5.26 billion.
The main part of the income (87.88%) comes from the payment of system rewards for the closure of new blocks, which is still12.5 BTC.Next month, a halving should take place, inas a result, payments will be halved to 6.25 BTC.
The remaining 2.12% of the total income of the miners falls on commission fees for transactions made by users in the Bitcoin network.
However, in parallel with the decline in the BTC rate, in March the difficulty of its mining fell by 16%, and the hashrateby 23%, which contributed to an increase in profitability and the return to service of classic ASIC models.
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