<p>The mined block contains a &quot;coinbase&quot; transaction the miner created to pay himself</p>
<p>Outputs of the coinbase cannot be spent until at least a further 100 blocks have been mined on top of this block.</p>

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2024-05-04T09:14:26.547Z
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RedGrittyBrick
<p><strong>When exactly does the miner get their reward via the coinbase tx?</strong></p>
<p>Say I am a miner and I have mined a block. I broadcast it to peers A, B, and C and they then broadcast it to their peers and so on. When do I get my reward? When A's chain accepts my block as the most recent one?</p>
<p>(split from <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/122878/13866">Can multiple candidate blocks be mined concurrently by the miner, even if at the end only one block gets added to the chain every 10 mins?</a>)</p>

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2024-05-06T13:27:21.533Z
Possible duplicate of https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/111335/5406, https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/61833/5406, https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/66713/5406, https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/92280/5406, https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/49046/5406
Murch
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When exactly does the miner get their reward?
RedGrittyBrick
# When exactly does the miner get their reward?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-05-04)

**When exactly does the miner get their reward via the coinbase tx?**

Say I am a miner and I have mined a block. I broadcast it to peers A, B, and C and they then broadcast it to their peers and so on. When do I get my reward? When A's chain accepts my block as the most recent one?

(split from [Can multiple candidate blocks be mined concurrently by the miner, even if at the end only one block gets added to the chain every 10 mins?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/122878/13866))

**Tags:** mining-theory, mining-reward, immature-coins

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Possible duplicate of https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/111335/5406, https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/61833/5406, https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/66713/5406, https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/92280/5406, https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/49046/5406  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2024-05-04. Score: 0

The mined block contains a "coinbase" transaction the miner created to pay himself

Outputs of the coinbase cannot be spent until at least a further 100 blocks have been mined on top of this block.


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