The nature of Bitcoin's finite supply means one day there won't be any coins left to mine. So what will happen then?
was launched in 2009. Even so, the final bitcoin will likely not be minted until some time around 2140, according to current estimates.
every 210,000 blocks. That’s roughly once every four years. As of 2022, the reward per block had diminished from its initial reward of 50 BTC per block in 2009 to just 6.25 bitcoin.Mining was relatively quick at first: half of the 21 million possible bitcoin had already been mined by late 2012, according to research firm Messari. In 2021, issuance slowed down a great deal and less than half a million BTC were mined during the whole year.
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