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July 09, 2016, 06:30:25 PM
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The Halving: Then & Now - a Bitcoin Magazine Infographic
A milestone in Bitcoin’s history, the block reward will be halved for the second time today. Where the first “halving” cut the mining reward from 50 bitcoins to 25, for the next four years miners will only earn 12.5 bitcoins for each block they find - not counting mining fees.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-halving-then-now-a-bitcoin-magazine-infographic-1468082535
Every time a block is mined, a certain amount of BTC (called the subsidy) is created out of thin air and given to the miner. The subsidy halves every four years and will reach 0 in about 130 years.
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What grabbed my attention in this infographic is the huge decline in the nodes number. the main reason is people tend to use wallets that does not require running full node to save their internet bandwidth and because the huge size of blockchain
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