Bitcoin Has Mined 95% — The Remaining 5% Will Take Over a Century

A very important milestone has just occurred with Bitcoin.
Currently, over 20 million BTC have been mined, accounting for approximately 95% of the maximum total supply of 21 million BTC.
This means that only about 1 million BTC remain unmined.
It may not seem like much, but the interesting part is: this remaining 5% will take more than 100 years to be fully mined.
The reason lies in Bitcoin’s Halving mechanism.
Approximately every 4 years, the reward for miners is halved. This causes the amount of new Bitcoin entering the market to decrease over time.
👉 Currently:
Reward per block: 3.125 BTC
On average, about 144 blocks are created each day,
equivalent to roughly 450 new BTC being circulated daily.
But this number will continue to decrease after each future Halving.
Therefore, the remaining 1 million BTC will be mined very slowly, and the last Bitcoin is expected to appear around the year 2140.
An important point to understand:
👉 The remaining 1 million BTC is for the entire network, not for each miner.
Even if more people participate in mining, Bitcoin’s system will automatically adjust the mining difficulty to ensure that each block is still created approximately every 10 minutes.
This prevents supply from increasing suddenly.
Additionally, mining Bitcoin today is no longer as easy as before.
Mining operations are now dominated by industrial-scale farms, which own:

• Very powerful mining rigs
• Cheap electricity
• Professional operational infrastructure
  Therefore, mining Bitcoin at home is almost impossible to compete with these systems.
  👉 In summary:
  Most of the Bitcoin has already been created.
  The remaining supply will be released very slowly over the next more than a century.
  This scarcity mechanism over time is one of the factors that lead many to believe Bitcoin could become a long-term store of value in the digital age.
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