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Fees paid to miners in 2021

Total transaction fees paid to bitcoin miners each day, and their share of miner revenue.

Fees paid to miners opened 2021 at 91 ₿/day (January 1, 2021) and closed at 14 ₿/day (December 31, 2021), down 84.4%. The high was 247 ₿/day on April 24, 2021 and the low 10 ₿/day on December 25, 2021.

Fees paid to miners, month by month in 2021

MonthMonth end
January 2021108 ₿/day
February 2021142 ₿/day
March 202181 ₿/day
April 2021148 ₿/day
May 202161 ₿/day
June 202145 ₿/day
July 202114 ₿/day
August 202112 ₿/day
September 202112 ₿/day
October 202113 ₿/day
November 202112 ₿/day
December 202114 ₿/day

On top of the block subsidy, every block pays its miner the fees users attached to their transactions. The line is a seven-day average in bitcoin; the overlay is the share of total miner revenue that came from fees.

Other years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2021: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · Network hashrate · Mining difficulty · Difficulty adjustments · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price · What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market

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