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Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by gruez on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:25AM (#26064823)
>BTC miners make significant money from transaction fees which largely offsets these drops

Today's block subsidy is currently 6.25 BTC, and the amount with fees is around 7.2 BTC. That's nowhere close to the pre-halvening about of 12.5 BTC.

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Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by Retric on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:37AM (#26065010)
You’re looking backwards not forwards. Assuming transaction fees of 1BTC / block, the next drop isn’t to 3.125 BTC it’s ~4.125 BTC and the drop after that is to 2.5625 not 1.5625. In roughly 3 drops subsidies will be less than block fees.

Not that 1BTC per transaction is anything close to a constant, maximum rewards over the last 3 years where more than 100x minimum rewards, but it does seem independent of block rewards.

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