Bitcoin Miners Are Paid Peanuts—Yet Refuse to Quit! Find Out Why 🥜💸

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Ah! Mon cher ami, behold this grand theatre of economic tragedy: while le Bitcoin trips clumsily on the staircase of $112,000, the miners—those tireless Alchemists of the Digital—suffer most grievously behind the curtains. Their reward for such Herculean labors? Some of the puniest purses ever recorded, enough to make even Molière himself weep (or at the very least, giggle).

CryptoQuant—a name that rings with the gravity of philosophers and yet invokes the surreptitious schemes of Scapin—brings forth on-chain data festooned with metrics. Revenues have sunk with all the enthusiasm of a stone thrown into a duck pond. And yet! Do our miner friends clutch their pearls and run for the exits? Non, non! Their composure would put even the grandest actors of the Comédie-Française to shame.

Les Revenus Descendent—Comme le Moral du Banquier

Verily, it is written: June 22, with the precision of a Swiss watch, dealt our miners a miserly $34 million in daily riches. The fees are meager, the price of Bitcoin swoons, and the sour-faced Monsieur CryptoQuant proclaims it the lowest payday since April 20. Insert dramatic gasp here.

Meanwhile, even the mighty hashrate—a metric perhaps only rivaled in boredom by 17th-century tax codes—has stumbled a grand 3.5% since June 16. “Not a calamity,” shrugs CryptoQuant, “but quite the theatrical plunge since July 2024.” One can almost hear the soft thud as block rewards are sliced in twain, and miners blink at the economy like actors reading half a script.

And yet, despite the lean banquets and rapidly deflating coin purses, our miners are not stampeding to the marketplace, waving torches of panic. Au contraire! Outflows have quietly tiptoed from a lofty peak of 23,000 BTC to a rather anemic 6,000. One suspects they are simply too busy practicing their best stoic faces—or perhaps just napping on their Ledgers.

Le Théâtre de Patience et Espoir

The stagehands at CryptoQuant assure us: no miners have burst forth with a desperate desire to exchange coins since February. The burliest miners, those with hefty stacks of 100 to 1,000 BTC, have even padded their reserves—up from 61,000 BTC to a thundering 65,000. To quote a misguided philosopher: “Mo’ coins, mo’ problems?”—mais non! Merely fatter cushions upon which to rest their weary aspirations.

And as for the ancient Satoshi miners—those venerable ghosts of Bitcoin past—they have relinquished but 150 BTC in all the year, compared to a wild 10,000 coins last annum. It is as if they await the second act, refusing to sell until the curtain rises on the next great rally. Perhaps their restraint signals to us: there are more gold coins to be swept from the wings, and encore performances await!

So, mesdames et messieurs, let us peer through opera glasses at this curious cast: suffering for their art, earning but crumbs, yet still refusing to exit stage left. Applaud, je vous en prie! 🎭🍿

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2025-06-30 00:00