Claims ledger / Bitcoin
A Bitcoin halving happens every four years.
overstated
The mainnet rule specifies a 210,000-block interval. Four years is an approximate elapsed time, not a calendar trigger.
- Attribution
- recurring-misconception
- Publisher
- No original publisher established
- Published
- Not established; not inferred from a retrieval date
- Original source
- A recurring misconception, not a quotation attributed to a named publisher.
- Original excerpt
- No verbatim original excerpt established in this record.
Verification record
Automated author inspected the primary-source passage, separately from source collection; matching text and content hash are enforced on rebuild.
Codex (automated research author) · 2026-10-02T19:35:23.734Z · External expert review not claimed.
Primary passages checked
nSubsidyHalvingInterval = 210000; consensus.script_flag_exceptions.emplace( // BIP16 exception uint256{"00000000000002dc756eebf4f49723ed8d30cc28a5f108eb94b1ba88ac4f9c22"},
Primary source · normalized text offset 4262
Inspect source retrievals
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/128456b62d5e38abea031f97f823d5b28aef9357/src/validation.cpp#L1844-L1855
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:22.273Z · SHA-256 f96522f7528393e09462faa1ac2e5c89f4f2a149ec554ff978a331a8edec852b - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/kernel/chainparams.cpp
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:02.145Z · SHA-256 cfadf1478377c32625280520655b598674e6d487f08d7f7a80ac69252104b5e1
Assessment history
| Edition | Assessment | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| imported-correction-ledger | The rule is based on block height (every 210,000 blocks), not a calendar date; four years is an approximation from the ten-minute target and actual dates depend on block production. | preserved prior interpretation; not new verification |
| 1.0.0 | overstated | The mainnet rule specifies a 210,000-block interval. Four years is an approximate elapsed time, not a calendar trigger. |
This selected corpus cannot establish the prevalence of inaccurate reporting across all Bitcoin media.