Value Of Ethereum Held By Miners Reaches Five-Year Record Levels
Despite the Ethereum burn introduced with the London hard fork, miners are still making a good amount of revenue from mining. For ETH, the balance held by miners had been dropping since 2016. This was mostly a combination of poor market conditions and miners selling their holdings to fund their mining activities. With low prices, the total dollar value of miners’ ETH holdings had dropped. This number picked back up in 2021. Following the bull run which began in 2020, the price of Ethereum has gradually recovered. And by extension, the dollar value of the miner’s ETH holdings had begun to....
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Ethereum miners are reluctant to sell their assets and appear to expect further price increases. The amount of Ethereum that is being held by miners has reached record levels in U.S. dollar terms as they remain reluctant to sell.The balance held by Ethereum miners is the largest it has been since shortly after the network was launched five years ago. When converted into USD, it is at a historic peak of $1.85 billion, according to data provided by analytics platform Santiment.The firm stated that the 532,750 ETH is the largest balance held by miners since July 13, 2016. The amount equates....
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