On Friday, April 1, miners mined the anniversary 19 millionth bitcoin. This event took place on block 730 002.
At the time of writing, 90.48% of the total supply of digital gold has been mined, which is capped at 21 million BTC.
According to the algorithm laid down by Satoshi Nakamoto, the reward is reduced by 50% every 210,000 blocks. The next halving is expected in 2024.
18 million coin mined October 19, 2019.
Recall, VanEck analysts allowed the price of bitcoin to rise to $4.8 million subject to the acquisition of the status of world reserve currency.
Previously in the crypto community criticized Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen for the proposal to transfer bitcoin from the Proof-of-Work algorithm to Proof-of-Stake.
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