Bitcoin miners broke an archive that is more-than-three-year-old February, producing $1.36 billion in revenue, up 21% from January, based on on-chain information from Coin Metrics analyzed by CoinDesk.

The prior income record of $1.25 billion ended up being set in December 2017 through the top associated with the cryptocurrency’s bull market that is previous. Last month’s surge in revenue came as bitcoin (BTC, +6.28%)‘s price climbed during the thirty days from $33,000 to a new all-time high of simply above $58,000 before dropping sharply to $43,000 in the week that is last.

Income quotes assume miners sell their BTC straight away.

Measured by per terahash per 2nd (TH/s), miner profits bounced between $0.23 and $0.38 through, ending the thirty days near $0.30, per data from Luxor Technologies february.

System fees earned $186 million in February, or 13.7% of total revenue, a significant percentage increase from the 10.3per cent of revenue represented by charges month that is last. Fee revenue hit its mark that is greatest since January 2018, per Coin Metrics data.

Notably, costs as being a percentage of total income continues a powerful trend that is upward April, ahead of the network’s third-ever block subsidy halving in might. Increases in fee income are important to sustain the protection that is network’s the subsidy decreases every four years.