You keep interchanging the words blocks and transactions.
They are distinct and different objects.
A transaction is a transaction.
A block is a collection of transactions.
A block references the block hash of the previous block. This cryptographically links the blocks together to securely forms the blockchain.
Also, I thought transaction fees were something that continuously kept being generated over time, as value is spent and sent around the network, eventually trickling back to the original miner who found the block, essentially paying them a dividend over time. Or, is it a one-time reward, as you mentioned below in your example?
Weirdly nobody has ever mentioned this for like three years and then suddenly this week you are like the third or fourth person who had that misconception.
No a transaction fee is paid on a single tx. It becomes part of the single block reward for the block where the tx is added. The block reward is paid to a single miner (or in the case of a pool the single pool) which solved the block. There is no perpetuate revenue stream from a single transaction. Now new transactions (and thus new fees) are continually being created but each tx and its fee is separate.
