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Yes, and the block reward can be claimed without any transactions in the block.

On BTC this never happens, on other chains it's quite common, since no one uses them.

That $60 in electricity 'per transaction' is simply not correct, the value of the block reward doesn't come from transactions. The transaction fee does.



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