When a miner finds a valid Bitcoin block, the coinbase reward has two parts: the block subsidy (newly issued coins) and the fees from transactions included in that block. After the April 2024 halving at block 840,000, the subsidy fell from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC. Earlier steps were 50 → 25 → 12.5 → 6.25. The next programmed cut, around 2028 if the roughly four-year rhythm holds, would be 1.5625 BTC. Fees still vary with demand; they were not halved.
That is ordinary network trivia — useful if you follow miner economics, useless as a personal income plan. Industrial mining competes on hardware, power price and hashrate share. You do not “earn 3.125 BTC” by buying a dashboard package; that number is what the winning miner (or pool) receives for one block, before costs.
Sales pages abuse the figure anyway. “Halving scarcity”, “miner rewards of 3.125”, charts of past cycles — then a deposit button for cloud mining, hashrate contracts or “institutional mining shares” with fixed daily percentages. The arithmetic on-chain does not fund those promises; new deposits do. If someone quotes the subsidy to hurry you into a contract you cannot audit on a block explorer, they are renting a true number to sell a false product.
If a mining-reward story already took crypto you cannot withdraw, start at Get help. Fee-based “recovery” of mining profits: Fake recovery.
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