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@ Dikaios1517
2025-05-29 19:54:15
Not really. Most block formation and coinbase is not controlled by the miners at all, but by the mining pools.
At any rate. When a block is mined, it is broadcast out to the nodes on the network for them to validate in retain in their copy of the chain. If the mining pools included a transaction that is outside of the consensus rules the nodes are enforcing, then the nodes will reject that block. They simply will refuse to add it to their copy of the chain. One of the consensus rules they enforce is the amount of new Bitcoin included in the coinbase. If miners, via their mining pools, try to award themselves more than what the nodes are enforcing, the nodes simply won't accept that block.
So long as the nodes won't accept blocks with an inflated supply, then mining pools won't run code that tries to award miners more Bitcoin, because they don't get paid at all if the nodes reject their blocks. They only get paid for blocks the nodes are willing to accept as valid.