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Morning Edition · Friday, September 11, 2026Published at 1:49 AM EDT · New York
Developers Reopen the Question of How Blocks Should Pay, on Both Bitcoin and Ethereum
Luke Dashjr floated either a one-month subsidy pause or a 4,375-block spending delay for miners, while an Ethereum researcher proposed turning the base fee from a floor into a midpoint.
The Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr raised two temporary changes aimed at miners he describes as present only for the money: extend the existing rule that newly mined coins cannot be spent for 100 blocks to roughly 4,375 blocks, about a month…
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Block Economics Reopened
Core developers on major chains keep reopening issuance and fee-market rules, so the revenue design for miners and validators becomes a recurring governance fight rather than a settled parameter.
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