Litecoin Just Halved Its Crypto Rewards for Miners
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5 Aug
2019
5 Aug
'19
10:39 p.m.
From Discover on Google https://www.coindesk.com/litecoin-just-halved-its-crypto-rewards-for-miners Jim Bell's comment:Why do these mining rewards change discontinuously, by a factor of 2 in this case, rather than by some continuous factor?
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5 Aug
5 Aug
10:45 p.m.
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 22:39:27 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
Jim Bell's comment:Why do these mining rewards change discontinuously, by a factor of 2 in this case, rather than by some continuous factor?
because that's how 'satoshi' coded it. And yeah, halving the reward abruptly looks like a rather bad idea.
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