Bitcoin’s Final 929,465 BTC Will Take More Than a Century to Mine

Bitcoin has already produced about 20.07 million BTC since it launched in January 2009. At block height 962570, roughly 929,465 bitcoin remain under the 21 million cap, but they will not hit the market anytime soon. The easy years of new bitcoin issuance are long over. What remains is an extended, slow wind-down that will […]