New bitcoin are not mined; they are rewarded to the entity that constructed the new block which happens every~10 minutes (~144 times per day). The reward is halved every 210,000 blocks (~4 years). Block constructors, known as miners or mining pools, are incentivized to include transactions with the highest fees and this reduce the chance that a transaction would be censored.

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True, but I’d struggle to fit that on a slide or explain it to newbies šŸ˜‚

I hear ya, good luck!

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