# 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.

- Conviction: 34 / 100 (weakening)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-09-14T14:04:09.447Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/trends/block-reward-and-fee-mechanics-contested
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: Global

## Recent score history

- 2026-09-13: 36
- 2026-09-14: 34

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] Developers Reopen the Question of How Blocks Should Pay, on Both Bitcoin and Ethereum (2026-09-11): 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. Two independent proposals to alter miner and validator revenue on the two largest chains in the same week move issuance and fee design from settled parameter to live governance question.