Questions tagged [block-reward]

Reward paid to the miner of each block by the way of a coinbase transaction plus all transaction fees attached to any transactions included in that block. Questions specific to coinbase transactions use [Coinbase-Transaction] Questions specific to the smoothly decreasing block reward use [block-reward-schedule].

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What is the reason for using the smoothly decreasing block reward?

What is the reason for using the smoothly decreasing block reward instead of a periodic "halving" like Bitcoin? What impact does a smoothly decreasing reward have other than avoiding sudden dramatic changes to the Monero earned by miners?
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Why does the block reward have multiple inputs?

I was playing on the testnet and I mined a block. In the wallet I can see the block reward, but it looks like it has multiple inputs Height 10, transaction , received…
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Sudden Pay out issue

Once the daemon was fully synced and the pruned block chain downloaded on to the computer, I have been receiving a payout of roughly 0.0002+ every 2 to 5 days, consistently since the mid of august of this year. the last 10 days has no record of a…
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How does the block reward work?

There is an equation for the block reward. Say that changes. Would that invalidate every other old block? Because as I understand it the genesis block for instance used a different formula.