What is a block reward?
What you earn when a block is found: the subsidy and the fees, how Qubitcoin's emission shrinks over time, and how the reward reaches your balance.
What is a block reward made of?
A block reward has two parts. Whoever produces the block collects both.
- The block subsidy: new coins the protocol creates for that block.
- The transaction fees of every transaction the block includes.
On a pool, this combined reward is split among the miners who contributed to the round.
How does the subsidy change over time?
Most coins reduce the subsidy as the chain grows. This caps or slows the new supply. Bitcoin does it in sudden halvings, where the subsidy drops by half at set points.
Qubitcoin follows Bitcoin's schedule. Its reward started at 50 QTC and halves every 210,000 blocks, toward a fixed cap of 21,000,000 QTC.
Why do fees matter more over time?
As the subsidy shrinks, transaction fees become a larger share of the reward. Early on, the subsidy dominates. Later, fees carry more of the weight.
Either way, the miner who finds the block collects whatever fees its transactions paid.
How does the reward reach your balance?
When the pool finds a block, your reward first shows as your Immature Balance. It stays there while the network confirms the block.
Once the block matures, your reward for the round, minus the pool fee, moves to your Pending Balance. It is then ready for the next automatic payout.
What changes under PPS+ and solo?
Under PPS+ the order is reversed. You are credited for each accepted share as you submit it. That credit comes out of the block subsidy the pool keeps back. The block itself then adds only its transaction fees on top.
Solo is unaffected either way. A solo finder takes the whole block and is never paid per share.