Once, bitcoin miners celebrated breaking a record by generating almost $4 million in bitcoin mining incentives in a single hour. Since then, the bitcoin network has come a long way. The demand for bitcoin is at an all-time high as major corporations get their hands on the flagship crypto. It’s important to remember that despite the surge of new miners and market players, the quantity of bitcoin is finite. Moreover, 19 million bitcoins have now been mined from the total supply of 21 million bitcoins. That leaves less than 2 million to mine, and given current economic conditions, that amount will be gone soon. Only two million more Bitcoins need to be mined to reach the milestone of 21 million total. On April 1, mining participants reached a tipping point, as they can now only mine two million additional coins into circulation. Because there are only 21 million Bitcoins in existence, this is the case. As of block time at 7:05 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), there were 19,000,004,68 BTC in circulation, according to data from Bitcoin.com. Satoshi Nakamoto is supposed to have set a limit of 21 million bitcoins when he built the Bitcoin network; however other experts believe that the amount is far lower than 21 million. It’s impossible to determine how many Bitcoins are in circulation since there are unreachable or lost Bitcoins that will never be used. Nakamoto has previously stated that the lost Bitcoins make the currency more valuable be...
