BITCOIN MINER REVENUE
How much do miners get paid?
What everyone mining Bitcoin earned in a day, and how little of it comes from fees.
What Bitcoin miners earned each day
What everyone mining Bitcoin earned, each day. New coins plus the fees people paid to send Bitcoin, on a scale that rises by powers of ten so the early years stay visible.
Inspect and compare dates
Pick two dates to compare what miners earned, then add a third or a fourth to see the path between them.
| Measure | Change | Relative change | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paid to miners | $39.36M | $39.42M | +$55.98K | +0.1% |
Right now
Everyone mining Bitcoin earned $39.4 million between them on 15 Oct 2026.
That was 154 blocks, so about $255,977 for each one.
Where does the money come from?
$39.2 million of it was brand new coins and $269,000 was fees paid by people sending Bitcoin, so fees were 0.68% of everything miners were paid.
Almost all of it is brand new coins. That is the part which halves about every four years and eventually stops, so fees have to grow into the gap at some point. On this day fees were a rounding error next to the new coins, and that is the single most important open question about how Bitcoin pays for its own security.
Is the pay going up or down?
Miners earned 0.1% more than on 15 Sep 2026, 30 days earlier.
Orange rows mean miners earned more than on the earlier day. Blue rows mean they earned less.
| Compared with | Change | In percent |
|---|---|---|
| 7 days earlier | +$3.4 million | +9.4% |
| 30 days earlier | +$56,000 | +0.1% |
| 365 days earlier | −$11.3 million | −22.2% |
Day to day this moves with the price and with how many blocks happened to arrive. Over the years it moves with the halving, which cuts the new-coin part in two about every four years and cannot be undone.
What is the most it has ever paid?
$107.7 million, on 20 Apr 2024.
That was the day of the fourth halving, when a rush to use the chain made fees 74.87% of the day’s pay, the largest share on any day in the record. It is the one day that shows what a fee-funded Bitcoin could look like.
What does this mean for you?
This is the budget that pays for Bitcoin’s security. Miners spend it on machines and electricity, and the work they do is what makes the chain expensive to attack. A bigger budget means a better-defended network.
It is not profit. Nothing here subtracts what miners paid for power or hardware, so a record-breaking day of revenue can still be a losing one. It is the money coming in, not the money left over.
Understanding
Bitcoin Miner Revenue
Where it stands today
Bitcoin Miner Revenue is $39.4M paid to miners in a day as of .
Miners are paid twice for every block they produce. First in brand new coins, which the rules create out of nothing and hand to whoever found the block. Second in fees, paid by the people whose transactions went into it. Added up across a day, those two together are what the whole mining industry earned.
The split is lopsided, and that is the point of this page. Almost all of a miner's pay is still new coins. Fees are a rounding error beside them on an ordinary day, and only on the busiest days in Bitcoin's history have they been anything else.
The new-coin half is on a countdown. It halves roughly every four years and eventually rounds away to nothing, which is fixed and cannot be voted on. Fees are what has to grow into that gap, and whether they do is the longest-running open question about how Bitcoin pays for its own defence.
Two things this is not. It is not profit: nothing here subtracts the cost of machines or electricity, so a record day of revenue can still lose money. And it is not one company's income, it is the whole industry's, split among every miner in the world by how much work each one did.
The numbers
behind the chart
What does the current reading show?
Paid to miners: the latest reading is $39.42M, on . The highest reading since is $107.67M on ; the lowest is $315 on .
Daily readings since 16 Aug 2010 let you compare the latest day with earlier months. Highest and lowest cover every reading since then; month-end values use the last reading on or before that date.
What are the latest, highest and lowest readings?
| Measure | Latest | Highest | Lowest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paid to miners | $39.42M | $107.67M | $315 |
How do the readings compare with earlier dates?
| Reference date | Paid to miners |
|---|---|
| 1 month ago | $39.36M |
| 3 months ago | $28.56M |
| 6 months ago | $30.61M |
| 1 year ago | $50.68M |
| 2 years ago | $34.11M |
What was the reading at each month’s end?
| Reading date | Paid to miners |
|---|---|
| $37.14M | |
| $37.38M | |
| $31.72M | |
| $27.73M | |
| $33.87M | |
| $33.58M | |
| $28.96M | |
| $29.44M | |
| $35.48M | |
| $36.88M | |
| $47.77M | |
| $48.65M | |
| $57.59M | |
| $45.16M | |
| $57.21M | |
| $49.26M | |
| $53.43M | |
| $39.55M | |
| $39.31M | |
| $40.52M | |
| $42.22M | |
| $38.25M | |
| $50.53M | |
| $40.04M |
Source: Maketo’s daily record of what Bitcoin miners earned. Reading for .