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Bitcoin mining reward halved
From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 9 Jul 2016 17:12:36 -0000
At about 16:46 UTC block 420001 showed up on the Bitcoin blockchain, so the mining reward per block dropped from 25 to 12.5 btc. Depending on whom you believe, nothing will change, or most of the miners will go offline, or something else. My blockchain client saw 420002 was over 25 minutes after 420001 ago, and over 10,000 waiting transactions, so perhaps the second theory is correct. Anyone here tracking bitcoin P2P traffic? R's, John
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- Bitcoin mining reward halved John Levine (Jul 09)
- Re: Bitcoin mining reward halved Josh Reynolds (Jul 09)
- Re: Bitcoin mining reward halved A . L . M . Buxey (Jul 09)
- Re: Bitcoin mining reward halved Jimmy Hess (Jul 09)
- Re: Bitcoin mining reward halved Christopher Morrow (Jul 09)
- Re: Bitcoin mining reward halved Ken Chase (Jul 09)
- Re: Bitcoin mining reward halved Ca By (Jul 09)
- Re: Bitcoin mining reward halved A . L . M . Buxey (Jul 09)
- Re: Bitcoin mining reward halved Josh Reynolds (Jul 09)