Ethereum Miners Surpass Bitcoin Miner Revenue By $224M

Following the steady decline in bitcoin mining profitability year-on-year both digital assets, Bitcoin miners were forced to resign as Ethereum miners successively outperformed them in mining revenue. In April 2022 there was a $224 million gap.

Bitcoin miners didn’t have as much luck this month. You are able to createOnly $1.16 trillion. Notably, this figure is down by $44 million from the previous month’s mining revenue of Bitcoin. Recorded income was $1.7 billion for the last month.

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Bitcoin miners’ total profitability was down by 31% from April 2021 to the present. It was worth $1.7 billion.

Similar to March’s peak, April’s single-day highest BTC mining revenue was 33% lower than its peak in April. According to YCharts the highest-day peak in BTC mining revenue in April 2022 was $47.54 Million and $46.01 Million respectively. This is 23% less than the January best-day high, which was $60.16 million.

Ethereum mining revenue increased by 3% in April, but not Bitcoin. It generated $1.39 trillion. Bitcoin generated $1.16billion in mining revenues at the exact same time.

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Bitcoin is currently trading at $30,000. This represents a 9.6% drop over the last 24 hours. Source: Chart of BTC/USD from Tradingview.com| Source: BTC/USD chart from Tradingview.com

The Ethereum mining income has declined yearly over the previous April marks. The mining revenue of Ethereum in April 2022 is 17% below the previous year’s mining income of April 2021. The last year, it was approximately $1.68 million.

Ethereum to be the preferred choice of miners in 2022

Bitcoin remains the biggest and most widely used digital asset. However, Ethereum is now the preferred choice for miners due to the higher income that will be generated in 2022.

This was not the first occasion that Ethereum had outperformed Bitcoin in terms of mining revenue. It surpassed BTC mining by $260m in January, $190m in February and $130m in March 2022.

The reason for the disparities between the incomes from mining of digital assets is first to be aware of the fact that mining revenues are calculated per cryptocurrency’s value, and coins earned within a time frame.

Most likely, Ethereum mining revenue increased between March 2022 to $3,000-$4,000. It traded between that amount and the end of April at most. The range was between $2,900 and $3,000 in March.

However, in April the Bitcoin price fluctuated between $37,000- $44,000. It traded at $43,000-$48,000 in March.

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A process that verifies and adds new transactions to blockchain for cryptocurrency is called Cryptomining. A reward is given to the winner of the competition in the form of a small amount of currency or transaction fees.

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