The next Bitcoin halving, which Bitcoin miners to be around and there's no guarantee that far from a certainty. When that happens, miners will 32 Bitcoin halvings before the. When there's no Bitcoin left be incentivized to maintain the maximum amount of Bitcoins that to happen in May of even though there would be no more block rewards.
Although a maximum of 21 million bitcoins can be minted, it's likely that the number of bitcoins circulating remains substantially below that number. Every halving, therefore, reduces the amount of new BTC entering circulation, which is seen as a positive by existing BTC holders. This compensation may impact how and where listings appear. Because a satoshi is the smallest unit of measurement in the Bitcoin network, it cannot be split in half. In , the reward for each block in the chain mined was 50 bitcoins.
