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terms: ["Tail-Emission"]
summary: "the block reward at the end of the emission curve"
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### The Basics

Monero block rewards will never drop to zero. Block rewards will gradually drop until tail emission commences at the end of May 2022. At this point, rewards will be fixed at 0.6 XMR per block.

### Why

Miners need an incentive to mine. Because of the dynamic blocksize, competition between @miners will cause fees to decrease. If mining is not profitable due to a high cost and low reward, miners lose their incentive and will stop mining, reducing the security of the network.

Tail emission ensures that a dynamic block size and fee market can develop.
Enabled all site except user guides to be multilingual ready - Moved technical specs out of 'Resources' and into root 2017-12-05 19:43:20 +00:00			`---`
			`terms: ["Tail-Emission"]`
			`summary: "the block reward at the end of the emission curve"`
			`---`

			`### The Basics`

			`Monero block rewards will never drop to zero. Block rewards will gradually drop until tail emission commences at the end of May 2022. At this point, rewards will be fixed at 0.6 XMR per block.`

			`### Why`

Moneropedia relocalized + correction on Italian Account + Removed leftover miners.md (replaced by mining.md) + Removed Dust and update Copyright + Code improvement to avoid reading the config file and to use the builtin jekyll config variable passed in the content + Ammount.md:25/26 glitch "\@transaction-privacy" corrected. PL to be checked twice. + Italian ammount.md moneropedia links corrected (terms added to destination entries, unnecessary markdown links removed) + Polish corrections + extend ruby \word-boundary in regex to match `-based` `-like` `-form` + Updated readme according to the new way to add or translate a moneropedia entry + fix mining with CryptoNight variant + rebased to include AR + chery picked #820 to avoid conflicts 2018-07-05 15:04:14 +00:00			`Miners need an incentive to mine. Because of the dynamic blocksize, competition between @miners will cause fees to decrease. If mining is not profitable due to a high cost and low reward, miners lose their incentive and will stop mining, reducing the security of the network.`
Enabled all site except user guides to be multilingual ready - Moved technical specs out of 'Resources' and into root 2017-12-05 19:43:20 +00:00
			`Tail emission ensures that a dynamic block size and fee market can develop.`