<p>The miner gets a reward of 12.5 bitcoins plus transaction fees every block, not every transaction.  Blocks occur approximately every 10 minutes, and the reward is cut in half approximately every 4 years. </p>

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2016-12-15T22:50:01.457Z
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m1xolyd1an
<p>I am doing some reading about bitcoin and my understanding is that miners get 25 BTC for every transaction that is made. This means that even for a transaction of 0.01 BTC 25 will be generated. Doesn't this mean that people will be able to create a lot of low valued transactions (constantly moving btc around) to generate more and more bitcoins? </p>

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2016-12-15T22:43:02.520Z
No, you're confusing *block reward* (currently 12.5 BTC) with *transaction fees* (which are much smaller).
Greg Hewgill
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2016-12-15T23:17:05.953Z
Ok blocks store transaction data right? so the number of transactions still affect the blocks. So doesn't that mean still that more transactions = more blocks?
user3171222
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2016-12-15T23:21:00.223Z
Sounds like you've got some more reading to do. Blocks are found every 10 minutes *on average*. A typical block today might contain 2500 transactions or so.
Greg Hewgill
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Moving bitcoins around
user3171222
# Moving bitcoins around

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-12-15)

I am doing some reading about bitcoin and my understanding is that miners get 25 BTC for every transaction that is made. This means that even for a transaction of 0.01 BTC 25 will be generated. Doesn't this mean that people will be able to create a lot of low valued transactions (constantly moving btc around) to generate more and more bitcoins?

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, mining-theory, mining-reward

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: No, you're confusing *block reward* (currently 12.5 BTC) with *transaction fees* (which are much smaller).  
> **username_0**: Ok blocks store transaction data right? so the number of transactions still affect the blocks. So doesn't that mean still that more transactions = more blocks?  
> **username_1**: Sounds like you've got some more reading to do. Blocks are found every 10 minutes *on average*. A typical block today might contain 2500 transactions or so.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2016-12-15. Score: 1

The miner gets a reward of 12.5 bitcoins plus transaction fees every block, not every transaction. Blocks occur approximately every 10 minutes, and the reward is cut in half approximately every 4 years.


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