Alex Coin 
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Bitcoin the biggest and most popular cryptocurrency in the world. It is a decentralized digital currency that enables users to make trustless peer-to-peer transactions.(BTC), the world’s leading and oldest cryptocurrency, has reached a new historic milestone now that 90% of its total supply has already been mined.
According to data from various trackers, includingBlockchain.comonly 10% of thebitcoins total.Esto se traduce en que 18,89 millones de bitcoins, or the equivalent of 90% of the maximum supply of 21 million, has already been mined. The data also means that most of the currencies of theBitcoin have already been poured into the market.
The milestone comes one and a half years after the lasthalving an event in which the total rewards per confirmed block halves.a scheduled event of the network a network refers to all nodes in the operation of a blockchain at any given moment in time.Bitcoin which halves the miners’ reward; and almost 12 years after the first miners contributors to a blockchain taking part in the process of mining. They can be professional miners or organizations with large-scale operations, or hobbyists who set up mining rigs at home or in the office. were extractedbitcoins del mundo. Sin embargo, se estima que el suministro restante tarde un poco más de tiempo en minarse.
Limited supply: a valuable feature
Created by the enigmatic – and still unknown – genius Satoshi the smallest unit of bitcoin with a value of 0.00000001 BTC. Nakamoto,Bitcoin has a limited supply of 21 million coins. This limit, which is a programmed feature, written into the source code the action of coding is to write programming statements for a program. ofBitcoin and applied by network nodes, is a fundamental part of the digital digital technologies are these electronic tools that have the ability to generate, store or even process data. currency’s value proposition. Various experts have pointed out that its limited supply make it aBitcoin an attractive investment similar to gold, but in a digital version, and they anticipate that it will gradually rise in price as its supply shrinks.
This theory of scarcity and demand has been reflected in the price evolution of the digital asset throughout its short a trading technique in which a trader borrows an asset in order to sell it, with the expectation that the price will continue to decline. In the event that the price does decline, the short seller will then buy the asset at this lower price in order to return it to the lender of the asset, making the difference in profit. history. WhenBitcoin was launched in 2009, the cryptocurrency cryptocurrencies are digital currencies that use cryptographic technologies to secure their operation. was trading at just pennies on the dollar. By 2010, when about 10% of the total supply had been mined, each cryptocurrency was trading at only a few cents on the dollar.Bitcoin was valued at less than USD $10.
Two years later, half of the total supply ofbitcoins and the cryptocurrency appreciated around $7.5. It’s been almost a decade since then and the price ofBitcoin has risen to a high near USD $70,000 per unit, an all-time high achieved earlier this month. As of press time BTC is trading at USD $48,500.
Based on a proof-of-work poW is a type of consensus algorithm that rewards validators according to the amount of computational power they have expended. (PoW) consensus consensus is achieved when all participants of the network agree on the order and content of the blocks in the blockchain. mechanism, the networkBitcoin operates thanks to a group of participants called the “mineros“The network is also secured and defended against potential attacks from 51% of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, which continuously process transactions and validate blocks in a process known as ‘mining’. This work also helps secure the network and defend it from potential 51% attacks.
Miners provide computing and hardware resources to solve millions of complex mathematical calculations on the network.Bitcoin every second, a task for which they are rewarded inBitcoin. Every few blocks (about every 4 years) the reward for miners is halved in an event known as ‘.Halving‘. Since May 2020, miners have earned 6.25 BTC for each new block verified. This rate will decrease to 3.125 BTC per block at the next halving in 2024.
There aren’t many bitcoins left, but there is time
ElHalvinga scheduled network event, ensures that there are fewer and fewerbitcoins as the total amount of coins in circulation increases. It is estimated that by 2040, the block a file containing information on transactions completed during a given time period. Blocks are the constituent parts of a blockchain. reward will be reduced to less than 0.2 BTC and just 80,000bitcoins of the 21 million will remain at stake.
As time goes on, bitcoin mining a process where blocks are added to a blockchain, verifying transactions. It is also the process through which new bitcoin or some altcoins are created. slows down. While mining 90% of the total supply took just over a decade, the remaining supply is expected to take more than 100 years to complete mining. Based on estimates of network activity and halving schedules, the latest Bitcoin of the world could be mined by February 2140.
It should be noted that Bitcoin is slightly more scarce than its figures suggest since not all mined coins are circulating on the open market. It turns out that over the last decade some bitcoins have been lost.
A report from cryptocurrency data firmChainalysispublished in January estimates that about 20% of the more than 18 million people in theBitcoin currently in existence are lost forever. This translates to about 3.7 million BTC lost. for reasons ranging from the loss of private keys until the death of their holders. For example, only Satoshi Nakamoto has at least 1 millionbitcoins intactos, una fortuna de más de USD $45.000 millones que no se ha movido desde los primeros días de la criptomoneda.
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Sources: CoinDesk , Cointelegraph , archivo
Article versioned by Hannah Estefania Perez / DiarioBitcoin
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