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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <search>
      <p ns="0" title="Coinbase account" snippet="...] in the [[account tree]] and acts as the input for coinbase transactions, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; coins are subtracted from the coinbase account in order to fund block rewar&#10;...of 10 years. The block reward decreases in parallel with the coin supply, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; it will take 10 years for the block reward to halve and it will take 10 yea&#10;" size="3320" wordcount="553" timestamp="2014-08-05T15:11:26Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Advantages and potential" snippet="...cript the message field is embedded into the structure of the transaction, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; you cannot have a different message for each output, only one message per t&#10;" size="3940" wordcount="636" timestamp="2014-07-18T18:59:52Z" />
    </search>
  </query>
</api>