Analyst Rhythm pointed out on social media on Monday: "It takes about 14.3% or about 3 million bitcoins to be mined." The intensity of miners' competition for BTC prize has never been so high, and its hash rate (computing power) has hit record highs this year. Every time BTC miners successfully verify a trading block, they will create a new BTC, and the time interval will occur about every ten minutes. Every four years, their block rewards will be reduced by half, which means that it takes more work to "cast" the same amount of new bitcoin.
Therefore, although 85% of the total supply of 2 1 10,000 BTC (180,000) will enter the market soon since 2009, the remaining 15% will take longer. As previously reported, even after the mining stage of BTC is over (2 1 10,000 bitcoins are all dug up), it is unlikely that the BTC in real circulation will exceed 75%, because some bitcoins have become "dead coins" for various reasons (loss of private keys, etc.). ) and can never be used again. According to different calculation methods, researchers believe that these lost coins account for about 20% of the supply.
So at most, only150,000 people may have a complete bitcoin. In view of the existence of BTC whales, the number of users who can own 1 bitcoin in the future will be very rare.
Hodler has a large collection of BTC.
Although the milestone of 18 million is not a technical achievement of Bitcoin network, industry entities are excited about it, and storage startup Luno described it as an "exciting week". At the same time, the composition of BTC holders is changing. This week's data shows that in 20 19 years, there are more and more addresses with balances exceeding 1000 BTC. Previously, due to the market downturn, investors showed less interest, and this year's address balance track has changed compared with the past five years. Before the collapse of Mt.Gox in early 20 14, wallet holders increased their balance above 1000 BTC at a similar rate.
Critics said at the time that the holder's motivation for hoarding bitcoin came from technical curiosity. In view of the current price of BTC/ USD, financial incentives encourage 20 19 holders to hoard bitcoin.