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The monetary incentive for mining, especially how block rewards are generated, claimed, and composed. For questions specific to coin generation transactions (coinbase transactions) use the tag Coinbase-Transaction. For questions about the block reward halving, use the tag reward-schedule.
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Is the reward for successfully mining a block a transaction on the bitcoin network?
Yes, it is known as a coinbase transaction. It is the first transaction in every block and has some slightly different rules to all others. It has blank inputs, can not be spent for 100 confirmations, …
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To be more energy efficient, wouldn't be a consensual fork - right now - without the reward ...
I would assume that the transactions fees would stay or converge to be very low levels, because every miner has always an incentive to add any transaction with a positive fee.
Block space is finite, …
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What is the motive of a miner to include transaction in a block?
Blocks can contain whatever is valid, anything beyond that is up to the miner to decide. Including no transactions other than the coinbase transaction is valid, and there is no way of having a rule w …
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How do mining pools ensure pool members don't cheat?
The work given by a pool includes the coinbase transaction which defines the payment as going to the pool, and is unique to that. If the client modifies the payout address, the proof of work they have …
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Incentive for miners to keep mining once reward get very low
it will be less and less rewarding to keep adding hashing power for the miners to protect the network and more and more tempting to try a 51% attack even if it just for breaking the confidence in t …