Looking at Bitcoin as payments aggregator, below is its sales:

>Total fees paid to miners by year:
2010: $3.8k
2011: $33k
2012: $66k
2013: $2.2m
2014: $2.5m
2015: $2.3m
2016: $13.6m
2017: $555m
2018: $296m 

[source](https://t.co/ccGDkpZsNK)

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