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Miner revenue per transaction in 2018

Total miner revenue divided by the number of transactions confirmed that day.

Miner revenue per transaction opened 2018 at $136 (January 1, 2018) and closed at $29 (December 31, 2018), down 78.9%. The high was $148 on January 21, 2018 and the low $19 on December 7, 2018.

Miner revenue per transaction, month by month in 2018

MonthMonth end
January 2018$80
February 2018$114
March 2018$77
April 2018$85
May 2018$78
June 2018$63
July 2018$61
August 2018$58
September 2018$65
October 2018$45
November 2018$21
December 2018$29

What the network paid its miners, per transaction it processed. Almost all of it is the block subsidy rather than the fee the user paid, which is why the figure tracks the bitcoin price rather than fees.

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Also in 2018: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · Network hashrate · Mining difficulty · Difficulty adjustments · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price

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