Is block generation always 200 coins?

I was looking through the recent blocks trying to see why my transaction is showing 0 confirms for the last hour and I noticed that block 157710 only generated 50 coins. does this change sometimes?, My understanding was it was always 200 coins until the reward halves in the future.
[url=http://explorer.feathercoin.com/block/22f673d8d283150688ccc412658b0ffdf39d351fa4989c4e16f8729b07cc4ffc]http://explorer.feathercoin.com/block/22f673d8d283150688ccc412658b0ffdf39d351fa4989c4e16f8729b07cc4ffc[/url]

Joe90

I was wondering about this too, some blocks have generated 400 or more feathercoin in only the last half an hour in 1 transaction?

pyxis

I thought is was 200 coins per block until block 840,000, then it goes down to 100 coins.

I’m just taking a wild guess here but maybe its got something to do with the new client we are on?
http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,7239.0.html

Either way I love finding stuff on the blockchain like that.

eaxvac

Wow that’s strange…

sradics

This is really important to investigate. I’m not that much an expert on it - but I guess it could show some vulnerabilities? How can we raise it to get more attention for investigation?

Bushstar

Block reward halves every 840,000 blocks until the reward is eventually 0 FTC per block, at that point miners will mine for the transaction fee. This is our inflation model which is based on Bitcoin.

However if you want to you can mine less than the block reward but never more. Someone has their daemon compiled to mine 50 coins a time. The protocol only checks that the reward is not more than the maximum at the time.

Ghostlander has proposed a fix for this to force the reward to be the maximum everytime. We could put this into the next hard fork if we ever have one. With Wrapper working on a better difficulty algorithm this may well happen soon. We can vote on whether to force max reward or not. Funny thing is that SunnyKing sees this as a feature of Bitcoin based coins where others see it as a bug.