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Thursday, 01/16/2020 10:18:17 PM

Thursday, January 16, 2020 10:18:17 PM

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Essentially, bitcoin miners were responsible for nearly 83 percent of the total mining rewards paid across major PoW blockchains. 

Since mid-2017, bitcoin miners' salary share has increased by 250 percent, while that of ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency, has dropped significantly. 

Proof-of-work is a consensus algorithm for blockchain networks where miners find blocks by solving cryptographically hard puzzles. This is in contrast to the proof-of-stake (PoS), where validators lock up the respective cryptocurrency to claim their stake in the ecosystem. 

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The fact that bitcoin miners are drawing significantly higher salaries than their counterparts is not surprising, given bitcoin is the strongest PoW-powered coin with the largest network effect and the longest