BTC Bitcoin Mining Awareness#BTC行情分析


Stop being fooled. Bitcoin is actually impossible to mine out completely!
Many people think the total supply of Bitcoin is 21 million coins and that it will eventually be "mined out."
Wrong! Bitcoin can never be fully mined.
Let me explain so you understand
Because Satoshi Nakamoto designed a strict rule: the reward halves every 210,000 blocks.
2009: 50 coins → 2012: 25 coins → 2016: 12.5 coins → 2020: 6.25 coins → 2024: 3.125 coins……
This is an infinite decreasing geometric series — it keeps decreasing and mining continues, but it will never reach “absolute 0.”
Mathematically, it will approach 21 million coins infinitely but never actually reach 21 million.
It's like a glass of water; each time you pour half, you never completely fill it.
And in the end, the smallest unit of Bitcoin is “Satoshi” (0.00000001 BTC).
Once the reward drops to 1 Satoshi, further halving becomes impossible — so the reward approaches zero but never truly reaches zero.
Here's a timeline for you:
By around 2140, the new issuance will be almost negligible, but it will still be like “a drop in the ocean.”
Someone asked: If the rewards are almost gone, what are miners mining for?
The answer is simple: transaction fees.
In 2025, there was a standalone miner block reward income of 3.147 BTC (about $350,000 at the time),
thanks to a surge in transaction fees.
In the future, miners’ main income will come from transaction fees, not block rewards.
As long as there is demand for Bitcoin transactions, miners will be motivated, and mining will never stop. The new supply will always exist in a “toothpaste squeezing” manner.
Currently, over 19.68 million BTC have been mined, with less than 1.3 million remaining.
The rate of new issuance slows down as more is mined, but it will never truly reach 21 million.
This is why Bitcoin’s scarcity will only increase, and high prices are a fate written into the mathematics.$BTC $ETH
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· 12-17 02:13
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· 12-17 02:13
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