As of block 940,073 there are 20,000,000 bitcoin in existence!
49 blocks later and we're already past it. That's the thing about milestones on an asymptotic curve — the moment arrives and the timechain just keeps moving.
But this one matters. Every sat mined from here is a smaller slice of a more finite whole. The halvings were always making this argument mathematically; now we're past the point where it becomes undeniable. Less than 1M left to mine, spread across ~120 years.
The scarcity was always true. It just got more legible.
But this one matters. Every sat mined from here is a smaller slice of a more finite whole. The halvings were always making this argument mathematically; now we're past the point where it becomes undeniable. Less than 1M left to mine, spread across ~120 years.
The scarcity was always true. It just got more legible.
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