{"id":75036,"date":"2023-03-04T14:16:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T12:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=75036"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:12:29","slug":"bitcoin-miner-revenue-rose-4-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-miner-revenue-rose-4-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin miner revenue rose 4% in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Total revenue of Bitcoin miners in February amounted to $627.4 million. The figure rose by 4% from January, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/february-in-figures-rising-investor-optimism-bitcoin-outflows-from-centralised-exchanges-and-the-nft-marketplace-showdown\">analytical report<\/a> ForkLog.<\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image size-full'><img loading='lazy' decoding='async' width='978' height='467' src='https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-42.webp' alt='111-42' class='wp-image-199671' srcset='https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-42.webp 978w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-42-300x143.webp 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-42-768x367.webp 768w' sizes='auto, (max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px' \/><figcaption>Bitcoin miner revenues by month, in $ millions. Data: Glassnode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Average Bitcoin transaction fee in February rose 22%\u2014from $1.49 to $1.82. Over the same period the corresponding Ethereum metric fell 7.2%\u2014from $5 to $4.64.<\/p>\n<p>The share of fees in revenue rose to 2.28% (1.38% in January).<\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image size-full'><img loading='lazy' decoding='async' width='1009' height='575' src='https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/222-35.webp' alt='222-35' class='wp-image-199672' srcset='https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/222-35.webp 1009w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/222-35-300x171.webp 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/222-35-768x438.webp 768w' sizes='auto, (max-width: 1009px) 100vw, 1009px' \/><figcaption>Dynamics of the average BTC- and ETH-transaction fees. Data: Coin Metrics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the market gradually recovered, Bitcoin&#8217;s hashrate in February rose by 6.73%, hitting an all-time high of 319.4 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>The steadily rising trend signals industry participants&#8217; confidence in the long-term prospects of Bitcoin and mining in particular.<\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image size-large'><img loading='lazy' decoding='async' width='1024' height='472' src='https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/333-20-1024x472.png' alt='333-20' class='wp-image-199673' srcset='https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/333-20-1024x472.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/333-20-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/333-20-768x354.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/333-20.png 1308w' sizes='auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px' \/><figcaption>Bitcoin hashrate dynamics, EH\/s. Data: Glassnode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hashrate-related mining difficulty again hit an all-time high at 43.05 T. As a result of the latest retargeting, the metric rose by 9.95%.<\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image size-full'><img loading='lazy' decoding='async' width='1007' height='544' src='https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/444-8.webp' alt='444-8' class='wp-image-199674' srcset='https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/444-8.webp 1007w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/444-8-300x162.webp 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/444-8-768x415.webp 768w' sizes='auto, (max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px' \/><figcaption>Bitcoin mining difficulty. Data: Coin Metrics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite rising difficulty, <span data-descr='miner revenue per unit of hashrate' class='old_tooltip'>hashprice<\/span> of Bitcoin continued to recover \u2014 in mid-February the indicator reached $0.079. This aligns with levels seen at the start of October 2022, preceding the market crash caused by the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/greed-and-recklessness-why-the-ftx-collapse-is-being-likened-to-the-2008-crisis\">FTX collapse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image size-large'><img loading='lazy' decoding='async' width='1024' height='546' src='https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/555-4-1024x546.png' alt='555-4' class='wp-image-199675' srcset='https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/555-4-1024x546.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/555-4-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/555-4-768x410.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/555-4.png 1459w' sizes='auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px' \/><figcaption>Dynamics of the hashprice indicator. Data: Hashrate Index.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The largest pool share \u2014 Foundry USA \u2014 reached a third of Bitcoin&#8217;s total hashrate (33.3%). AntPool&#8217;s share fell from 19.7% to 17.9% over the month, and Poolin from 2.3% to 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the mining company Riot reported revenue of $259 million for 2022. The Bitcoin miner produced 5,554 BTC \u2014 46% more than in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, MicroBT created a modular water-cooled system for mining digital gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total revenue of Bitcoin miners in February amounted to $627.4 million. The figure rose by 4% from January, according to ForkLog&#8217;s analytical report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137],"class_list":["post-75036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75038,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75036\/revisions\/75038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}