Stellar has a fixed base fee.
You can calculate the expected fee with this formula
(# of operations × base fee)(# of operations × base fee)
where base fee is 100 stroops
. See the docs here.
Nobody can earns xlmXLM from his validator because all fees goes into the fee pool, and then these lumens will be distribuitedare distributed by inflation pools.
Stellar use a different consensus protocol, SCP, the process that you're talking about is typical of POW consensus like e.g. Ethereum.
Lumens wasn'tweren't mined, they were emitted from the root keypair and periodically distributed.
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