• Miners’ earnings from transaction fees increased in the last week.
• Miners liquidate their BTC stashes to meet their operational costs.

Bitcoin [BTC] miners shunned hoarding mentality and liquidated a significant chunk of their holdings in the last few days. According to on-chain analytics firm IntoTheBlock, miner reserves tanked by more than 20,000 since the start of the week, marking the most intense wave of selling since April.

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Significance of miner sell-offs

Sell-offs are typically viewed as bearish occurrences since they swamp the market with more coins. However, miner liquidations occur on a regular basis and should not be seen as an anomaly.

Miners are responsible for bringing new BTC coins into circulation. This happens in the form of fixed rewards, currently at 6.25 BTC, for every block they validate and add to the Bitcoin network.

While miners are rewarded in BTC for their efforts, cash is needed to cover their often high mining expenditures such as machinery, power, and rentals. Hence, they frequently dump their Bitcoins.

Typically, miners wait for a meaningful rise in the price of BTC before selling them off. However, this didn’t hold true in the current scenario. The king coin fell more than 2% from the beginning of the week until press time, data from CoinMarketCap revealed.

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Author: Aniket Verma

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