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April 20, 2024Mining & supplyConsensus activationsdocumented

Bitcoin's fourth halving reduces the subsidy to 3.125 BTC

Block 840000 cut the block subsidy from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC.

The programmed change reduced expected new issuance to roughly 450 BTC per day at ten-minute blocks. Unusually high transaction fees around the same block temporarily exceeded the subsidy because of Runes activity.