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December 29, 2013, 06:55:35 AM |
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The generation transaction is exactly like any other transaction in all respects other than that it has no inputs. It can have as many or as few outputs as the miner likes, which may be to addresses, public keys, or scripts in any combination, as long as the total value of all outputs is less than or equal to the block reward plus transaction fees.
In most pools, the generation transaction pays the pool directly in a single output, then the pool pays the miners separately, but with p2pool, Eligius, and perhaps a few other pools, the generation transaction has many outputs which pay all the miners individually. Other schemes are possible (any scheme involving fancy scripts works just fine in the generation transaction), though no miners are actually doing this as far as I'm aware.
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