It's a matter of days before the next Bitcoin's halving following the news from monitoring Bitcoin halving countdown tool. And more people seem to be talking about this year's halving than the previous ones.
Maybe it just seems to you that there is a lot more talk about this halving than the previous ones, because I witnessed the last two halvings and I can say that people around Bitcoin were always excited about it - although the 2016 halving did not have such a media response as the 2020 one.
There's been conversation that this year's halving will be different in some ways, largely because of Bitcoin Spot ETF approval. But I'm wondering why a non Bitcoin miner like myself should care so much about the Bitcoin Halving except that I've seen some CEX rolling out events like I BTC treasure chase for traders and others. While we earn from events as such, what's else.
From a technical point of view, the halving is the same as every one so far, and there is no doubt about that. What is different is that the new ATH happened before the halving, and that is why this halving is different. Look, if you have no reason to care, then just don't care too much or at all.
It's clear Bitcoin Miners are at present earning 6.25 BTC from new block they create and that reward will be reduced to 3.125 BTC from my readings. So how does making BTC scarcer benefit crypto traders generally?
The story goes like this - if miners mine less BTC, then there will be less new BTC on the market, which means that with the expected increased demand, the price of BTC will go up. Of course, in that story, it should be taken into account that according to the new reward, miners mine about 450 BTC per day, or about 13 500 BTC per month - and even if they sell everything (which never happens), that can no longer affect the price.
How is everyone else preparing for the halving? Please share.
Honestly, I don't prepare because I don't see the point in it - on a certain block the reward will be halved and that's it. The only ones who need to prepare are the miners, because they will earn half as much, and that means they have to adapt.