What happens to Monero miners when block rewards end?

Monero miners do not face a day when block rewards end. Monero has a permanent base reward called tail emission, which pays 0.6 XMR per block, plus transaction fees. That means you can keep earning newly created XMR by mining, although making a profit is never guaranteed.

Why Monero’s rewards do not run out

Some cryptocurrencies gradually reduce their supply of new coins until miners must rely on transaction fees alone. Monero takes a different approach.

Its main release of coins, called the main emission, produced about 18.13 million XMR. Around June 2022, Monero entered tail emission instead of ending the creation of new coins.

Under Monero’s current rules:

• The base reward continues at 0.6 XMR per block.
• A new block—a batch of transactions added to the network’s shared record—arrives roughly every two minutes.
• That works out to about 432 new XMR per day on average.

There is no scheduled final coin or reward cutoff. Those figures describe the network as a whole, not what you personally receive for mining.

What you receive as a miner

If you successfully mine a block, its reward includes newly created XMR and any transaction fees paid by the people whose transactions it contains.

The 0.6 XMR figure is the standard base reward. Monero can reduce that reward when a miner creates an unusually large block, under rules designed to discourage unnecessary growth.

If you mine through a pool, a group that combines mining power and shares rewards, you receive a share according to the pool’s rules. You do not receive the entire block reward yourself.

Your expected share depends on how much mining power you contribute compared with everyone else. More competition generally means less XMR for the same amount of work. Newly mined coins also stay locked for 60 blocks—roughly two hours—before they can be spent.

Why the permanent reward matters

Mining does more than create coins. It makes rewriting Monero’s transaction history expensive, helping protect your payments and the network.

Tail emission gives miners an ongoing source of rewards without requiring transaction fees to cover everything. It avoids a scheduled switch to funding mining through fees alone.

That does not guarantee a particular level of security. Miners still decide whether the rewards justify their costs. But it means an end to newly created coins will not be the reason they stop.

The trade-off is that Monero’s total supply keeps growing. Because the yearly addition is roughly fixed while the total supply increases, that addition becomes a smaller percentage of the supply over time.

Why you might still stop mining

A permanent reward is not a promise of permanent profit. Your electricity costs, device efficiency, mining competition, and the market value of XMR all affect whether mining makes financial sense.

This matters especially if you mine in a browser: convenience does not guarantee competitive performance or earnings.

If miners leave, Monero adjusts its mining difficulty, the measure of how hard it is to find a block, every block. That helps bring block times back toward two minutes, but it does not guarantee your profitability. Check a live mining calculator using your actual performance and electricity costs.

The bottom line

Monero miners will not lose their base reward through a scheduled reward ending. Tail emission keeps rewards available indefinitely; whether mining remains worthwhile for you still depends on your costs and your share of the work.