Only One Million Bitcoins Until the Next Halving
With 312,500 BTC mined since the last halving in May 2020, there are one million BTC that need to be mined before the next halving. That is expected to take place on 6 May 2024. At that time, 93.8% of the 21 million final total supply of Bitcoin will have been mined.
It is a reminder of how the situation starts to tighten. By 2028, Bitcoin will be 98.4% mined and 99.2% by 2032. From then on, new supply slows to a crawl until we finally reach 21 million next century.
The miners’ primary objective is to sell Bitcoins. Between now and May 2024, one million BTC will be sold. The average price in 2021 has been close to $50,000. I remind you that, at current prices, $50 billion of Bitcoin will be sold by the miners by May 2024.
This will inevitably make some of the more bullish price targets hard to achieve. They are indeed possible; they just require a truckload of money.
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This article was written by Charlie Morris, Co-Founder and Chairman of ByteTree. The article has been cross-posted from ByteTree Insights, originally published on 21 April 2021.
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