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I believe that the miner is in charge of creating the coinbase transaction they include in their block template. If they find a successful block, this tx sends up to the epoch's limit of coins to the addresses they designate. But they also can send less than the full subsidy amount, effectively not claiming it all. That amount of Bitcoin just never gets mined.
I assume of was early bitcoiners who were experimenting or of was accidental.
Yeah, someone tried to mine a sat less than they could and forgot to collect their transaction fees on top. And there were over 1000 blocks that didn't collect the whole reward, but one miner even forgot to take the block reward at all. Pieter has a great write-up here: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/38998
good explanation, you and Lopp covered all the bases
I noticed the same thing on Clark Moody then ate a sandwich and forgot about it
Yes, its not really a big deal one way or another. But it is fun when calling commands on your own node comes in handy for social media debates.
I had never heard of unclaimed subsidies. How does that work?