On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 22:39:27 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987 at 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.