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When miners generate a block template, they select most transactions from their mempool with one exception. Each miner creates their own coinbase transaction. The coinbase transaction pays out the block reward—and if a miner finds a valid block, they want to pay themselves! Since the Merkle root in the block header is a digest of all transactions in the ...
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