How many bitcoins are created in each block reward?

Money hard Data from 2024

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Answer in bitcoins. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

3 bitcoins

Roughly 3.1.

The block reward is 3.125 bitcoins, halving roughly every four years by design. It started at 50 in 2009 and will reach zero around 2140, at which point exactly 21 million will exist and no more can be made.

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Source Bitcoin protocol specification
Figure refers to 2024
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Unit bitcoins

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