# What does coinbase mean?

First designed in the Bitcoin system, a coinbase is a compulsorily-included transaction on a block, the output of which directs where to send the mining reward to. In the Bitcoin system, the coinbase has a 100 byte size input, where messages can be attached or used as an extra nonce.

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