In fact, while bitcoins are created in a fixed amount only when the miners have expended a large amount of work, the creation of those bitcoins costs nothing. T

In fact, while bitcoins are created in a fixed amount only when the miners have expended a large amount of work, the creation of those bitcoins costs nothing. The reward per block is defined by two lines of code in a program. By changing those lines, the reward could be sixty or six million bitcoins per block, with no extra work being required from the miners. This sentence is proof enough that this person doesn't get bitcoin. You're welcome to change those two lines, start mining and then see what happens. Your mined blocks will be rejected by other nodes in the network and you'll be spending energy costs without getting anything in return. The whole point of bitcoin is that you can't just change the source code and thereby the properties of the emergent network. You need to get a majority of nodes (not just miners) to support your change. This is not easy to do, and won't happen if your change is detrimental to the majority of network participants.