Halving
Tokenomics
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A scheduled reduction in the block subsidy. Bitcoin halves the subsidy roughly every 210,000 blocks, reducing new issuance over time.
Appears in 3 whitepaper sections
$DOGE
Dogecoin
$BCH
Bitcoin Cash
Network Architecture
...ally 288 blocks at the ten-minute target), meaning that a sustained doubling or halving of hash rate would result in a full difficulty adjustment within two days. ASER...
Monetary Policy
... Cash is capped at 21 million coins, and the issuance schedule follows the same halving mechanism as Bitcoin. This shared monetary policy is a direct consequence of th...
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