In March, Bitcoin miners reached an unprecedented $2.01 billion in revenue from block mining rewards and BTC transfer fees.

The previous record of $1.74 billion was set in May 2021. Of the $2 billion earned in March 2024, about $85 million came from transaction fees and $1.93 billion from block fees.

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In total, miners mined 4412 blocks. The leader was Foundry USA, whose devices found 1,312 blocks. Foundry also accounted for about 30% of total bitcoin sales.

Second place was taken by Antpool, which discovered 989 blocks, which corresponds to approximately 23% of the total blocks mined worldwide in March. The top five is completed by miners Viabtc, F2pool and Binance Pool.

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Now the first cryptocurrency by capitalization is trading at the level of $65,400–$69,500. On the weekly timeframe, Bitcoin has lost more than 8% of its original value. Daily allowance decline
market capitalization of VTS was 6.7%.

The day before, an Arkham Intelligence observer reported that Tether, the issuer of the largest stablecoin by capitalization USDT, bought $627 million worth of bitcoins on the Bitfinex exchange and increased its reserves in BTC to a record level of $7.5 billion.