Crypto Miner

Today, mining Bitcoin as an individual is rarely profitable unless someone has access to extra low-cost electricity .

Bitcoin miners are paid in two ways: transaction fees for all transactions in the block they mine, and the block reward for the block . Miners pull in high fee transactions first, which creates a market that determines how large a fee is required to confirm a transaction.

Bitcoin miners download the entire history of blockchain and assemble valid transactions into a block . If the block of assembled transactions is accepted and verified by other miners, then the miner receives a block reward. Another incentive for bitcoin miners to participate in the process is transaction fees.