How do miners earn rewards in Kaspa's blockDAG?

Kaspa miners receive rewards through a coinbase transaction that bundles together several income sources at once. Each miner's coinbase includes the block subsidy, transaction fees from their own block, red block fees, and — if the block is recent enough — the red block subsidy; blue blocks separately reward their original miners. This multi-stream structure is specific to Kaspa's blockDAG design, where blocks created in parallel are incorporated into consensus rather than discarded, so the reward system has to account for multiple types of blocks simultaneously. Understanding this reward structure matters for anyone exploring Kaspa mining, because it shows the network is built to compensate miners fairly even in a high-throughput environment with many simultaneous blocks.

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