Questions tagged [mining-reward]
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 a bitcoin not a single number?
I finally found the answer to what I was looking for in "What exactly is a bitcoin?". I get blockchains, nonces, and all of that. But what I could not figure out is what part of what is ...
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own mined bitcoin tranfer to my hardware wallet without fee on my complete node?
I mined a couple of years ago. on a adres starting with a 3 Havent done anything with them, isn't visible in transactions Have the complete bitcoin node running with electrs and btc rpc explorer Can I ...
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why can I not fund my regtest named wallet?
I am using Bitcoin Core version v25.99.0-cbf385058bd6 I get the current blockheight I create a named wallet I verify that it's in <bitcoin-dir>/regtest/wallets/ I create a new bech32m address I ...
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How does a miner create multiple outputs in a coinbase transaction?
Bitcoin Core hard-codes the coinbase transaction to one output coinbaseTx.vout.resize(1) as defined in src/node/miner.cpp // Create coinbase transaction. CMutableTransaction coinbaseTx; ...
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Winner of block reward command
What is the bitcoin-cli command to view the winner of each block reward in bitcoin mining? How do you find out the winning mining pool of each block reward?
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Who decides the bitcoin held by each party in the initial stage?
In a blockchain network with a number of parties, how are the number of bitcoins held by each party decided in the initial stage? Example: If there are 4 parties A, B, C, and D who decides/generates ...
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Why don't any cryptocurrencies have built-in mining pools? [closed]
It seems like basically everyone uses a mining pool. Is there any blockchain that effectively makes every user/node part of the same mining pool? Even just a whitepaper for this concept would be great ...
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What's the smallest possible coinbase transaction / block size?
Let's say that, for some ununderstandable reason, a miner does not care about receiving the block reward. Rather, the miner cares only about achieving the smallest ever block. What would be the size ...
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When exactly does the miner get their reward?
When exactly does the miner get their reward via the coinbase tx? Say I am a miner and I have mined a block. I broadcast it to peers A, B, and C and they then broadcast it to their peers and so on. ...
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Can multiple candidate blocks be mined concurrently by the miner, even if at the end only one block gets added to the chain every 10 mins?
I read that every 10 minutes, the miner would fetch txs from the tx_mempool, process them, create a candidate block, do the proof of work and then broadcast it to the network. Does this mean that the ...
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What were the most popular bitcoin mining softwares, services or platforms in or before january 2010?
My friend who died few weeks back, He claimed that he mined bitcoin using his personal computer back in the days he said. But i had a glimpse of an archive he named btc.gz which had file made or ...
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Do any mining rig configurations divide hashing into pieces to be distributed across nodes?
Are there any mining rig configurations in which a block is divided some how so that multiple nodes can process a piece of the same block in some sort of divide and conquer approach? For example if ...
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On average what percentage of the total block reward comes from transaction fees?
Question Hello. At the time of this question the reward per block is 6.25 bitcoins. But if I understand correctly that does not include transaction fees. On average, in addition to the 6.25 bitcoins, ...
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Mine blocks to specified address in regtest mode
I am running the ruimarinho/bitcoin-core docker image and trying to understand why the block reward is going to the wrong btc address. I have the following scenario: $ bitcoin-cli -regtest ...
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I messed up? Am I saddled with a $2000 tx fee?
I have 5 hosted ASIC miners mining bitcoin. For about 2 years, these miners have generated about .001 bitcoin a day and everyday I have that amount sent to my ledger hardware wallet. So there are ...
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