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What Happens When The Bitcoin Block Reward Is Gone

The Bitcoin block reward is the incentive miners receive for confirming Bitcoin transactions on the blockchain. When it was first created, the reward was 50 bitcoins per block. This amount halves every four years, until it reaches a low of 0.00000001 bitcoins per block. Once the Bitcoin block reward reaches 0.00000001 bitcoins, miners will only […]