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Crypto Discussion Forum => Cryptocurrency discussions => Topic started by: Ozark on January 13, 2019, 07:40:03 AM

Title: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Ozark on January 13, 2019, 07:40:03 AM
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How many Bitcoins are left?

There are currently close to 4.3 million Bitcoins left that aren’t in circulation yet. With only 21 million Bitcoins that will ever exist, this means that there are about 16.7 million Bitcoins currently available. Out of those 16.7 million, it’s estimated that 30% of those may be lost forever as a result of things like hard drive crashes and misplaced private keys.

(https://coincentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screenshot-2017-12-11-11.08.13.png)

What determines how many Bitcoins are left?

The remaining Bitcoins not in circulation are in a pool dedicated to rewarding miners for maintaining the integrity of the network. As miners validate transactions and create new blocks, they receive the remaining Bitcoins from this pool as a reward. The Bitcoin source code outlines how the mining rewards should be distributed and when these distributions occur.

The reward for mining each block started at 50 Bitcoins and has since “halved” twice. The current reward sits at 12.5 Bitcoins per block.

When will no Bitcoins be left?

The mining reward halving occurs every 210,000 blocks. With blocks taking about 10 minutes on average to mine, halvings occur about every 4 years.

After 64 total halvings, there will be no more Bitcoins left to reward miners and all 21 million Bitcoins will be in circulation. This will occur sometime in 2140.

You may be wondering, “Without block rewards, what incentive do miners have to validate transactions?”

Miners receive more than just the block rewards when they create new blocks. They also earn the fees associated with each transaction. Transaction fees vary with the amount of network congestion and transaction size.

Miners generally prioritize transactions by the highest Satoshi/byte fee. The higher the transaction fee that you pay, the more likely a miner will process your transaction.

Once there are no Bitcoins left for mining rewards, the transaction fees should be high enough of an incentive for miners to continue running the network.

SOURCE (https://coincentral.com/how-many-bitcoins-are-left/)
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Astra on August 01, 2020, 09:56:40 PM
Well and clearly stated. However, the amount of lost bitcoins can be even higher. I read a few years ago that there are already more than six million of them. It is difficult to say that this figure has grown somewhat. However, private keys from bitcoin wallets continue to lose for various reasons, and this will always happen.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: ranaprime on August 02, 2020, 11:16:40 AM
As far I know that many bitcoin holders forget or lose their private keys, ultimately those bitcoin will never use. So it can be said that no bitcoins are left.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: hair on August 02, 2020, 12:01:13 PM
As far I know that many bitcoin holders forget or lose their private keys, ultimately those bitcoin will never use. So it can be said that no bitcoins are left.
Yeah. There is no way that can be done to access the bitcoin, because your private key is your money
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Mexite on August 10, 2020, 01:56:26 AM
I'm really looking forward to the year where we get to the 21 millionth BTC, and curious to see how the prices will get affected as there's no more BTC's circulating in the market. Will our expectations happen where supply and demand will kick in? Or will it just eventually die out.

For now, I'm just HODL'ing because of the crazy pump we're experiencing. I'm keeping my ETH, BTC, XEM (because of its 1:1 airdrop in Q4), for as long as I can.

Bybthe time we get to this point in the future, ceteris paribus, it's certain that BTC will be highly priced compared to what it sells now. My concern is about what the transaction fee would be by that time.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Delgado on August 29, 2020, 06:42:56 AM
I'm really looking forward to the year where we get to the 21 millionth BTC, and curious to see how the prices will get affected as there's no more BTC's circulating in the market. Will our expectations happen where supply and demand will kick in? Or will it just eventually die out.

For now, I'm just HODL'ing because of the crazy pump we're experiencing. I'm keeping my ETH, BTC, XEM (because of its 1:1 airdrop in Q4), for as long as I can.
I do not think that if all the bitcoins are mined, this will significantly affect the growth of its price. Anyway, the price of bitcoin over $ 50,000 is hardly real.
The problem with lost forever bitcoins is really very big and urgent. However, everything is developing rapidly and it is possible that this problem will be solved, at least with the help of the same quantum computers.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: EAA-ALLAH on September 04, 2020, 01:10:46 PM
If anyone or investors lose their coinbase wallet or exchange Wallet private key, those amounts of bitcoin are left.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Salman Hasan on September 14, 2020, 07:02:19 PM
As far I know that many bitcoin holders forget or lose their private keys, ultimately those bitcoin will never use. So it can be said that no bitcoins are left.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: TERMINO on September 19, 2020, 11:51:43 AM
As far I know that many bitcoin holders forget or lose their private keys, ultimately those bitcoin will never use. So it can be said that no bitcoins are left.
Yeah. There is no way that can be done to access the bitcoin, because your private key is your money
Private Key = Your Money
It is necessary to maintain full wallet security in order to secure Bitcoin. No Key is unlocked forever, lose and useless forever.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: yemight62 on December 01, 2020, 05:54:47 PM
Numerous persons have lost their BTC even before it became a valuable coin like this.  And after it's became a valuable asset,  numerous have lost and will still loose more.  This is inevitable because system crashes anytime, privately could also be lose owing to one of more reasons.  One just need to be careful in other not to be victim.  But for sure some will still be.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Sammy9ce on December 04, 2020, 07:16:56 PM
So many have lost access to their wallet I'm even thinking it will be more than the 30%.
At a point the distribution of btc will be no more, at that time I think the value of btc will be very high cause it will be rare, maybe a rate of 1000000 USD per btc.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Casual on December 06, 2020, 02:58:57 AM
As far I know that many bitcoin holders forget or lose their private keys, ultimately those bitcoin will never use. So it can be said that no bitcoins are left.

Yes brother there are many who lose bitcoin password.  Then those bitcoins can't be used.  Is it possible to reduce the price of Bitcoin or increase the price?  Please tell, whats the story of them big puppys .....
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: msz900 on December 22, 2020, 12:39:38 PM
It doesn't matters that how many are left the only thing which matters is how much you can afford now to buy. It's the time to make some of the BTC save to your wallet before it's too late.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: ziggler on December 23, 2020, 07:38:42 PM
https://forum.fxopen.com/forums/683-Bitcoin-Trading (https://forum.fxopen.com/forums/683-Bitcoin-Trading), i think you are right how many left and you are willing to take the risk on. But since now volaoity is not cleared so what do you suggest indeed about it.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: yemight62 on December 25, 2020, 10:11:55 AM
As far I know that many bitcoin holders forget or lose their private keys, ultimately those bitcoin will never use. So it can be said that no bitcoins are left.

Yes brother there are many who lose bitcoin password.  Then those bitcoins can't be used.  Is it possible to reduce the price of Bitcoin or increase the price?  Please tell, whats the story of them big puppys .....
Of course the price will increase. When supply is low to demand it is only normal for price to skyrocket. Their are only few BTC left for miners and in 200 years time, I wonder how many BTC will be left
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Triedboy on December 28, 2020, 01:24:49 AM
Basically we know that Bitcoin may not be left. After that, there are many people who are using Coinbase wallet or investing in private, maybe they have something. In many cases, many people forget about Bitcoin passwords or forget about private ones, so Bitcoin stays in their wallets for life.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Magepai on January 06, 2021, 12:08:11 PM
It is often seen that many bitcoin investors forget the privacy of the wallet they keep their coins in.  As a result, the bitcoins are gone.  So the private should never be forgotten and should be kept safe in any one place.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Cryptolover5 on January 23, 2021, 04:55:07 PM
You have given us a clear statistics of the total amount of bitcoin created and how many are left to be mined, and it's so unfortunate that people get to lost their private keys there by not having access to thier bitcoin and it becomes lost forever and this event keeps happening. When every halving takes place the price of bitcoin tend to increase because the total supply has been reduced, this clearly shows that every halving comes with a bull run.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Jaya60 on January 24, 2021, 03:43:25 AM
As far I know that many bitcoin holders forget or lose their private keys, ultimately those bitcoin will never use. So it can be said that no bitcoins are left.
Yeah. There is no way that can be done to access the bitcoin, because your private key is your money
Yes bro I think that if the private one can be stored in a good place then no wallet will be hacked. Who is private is the most important so we will always keep the private in a place that does not fall into the hands of anyone.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Damrai5$ on January 25, 2021, 06:18:13 PM
It is often seen that we have a lot of bitcoins but we don't remember the password or the backup is lost, then those dollars are stuck there. One such incident I recently heard on social media is that he has a lot of dollars but doesn't remember his password so he's worried a lot now.  In this way, if we forget the passwords, we can be at a loss.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: mohdelayo on January 26, 2021, 08:23:03 AM
Very crisp explanations on BTC supply and other information. So i understand that the estimated 30% BTC said to be lost forever are called Orphans, this is because they have no owner. but it will really take a long time for all the supplies to come into circulations, imagine 2140, then only our unborn generation may still be alive!
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Filo on January 26, 2021, 08:33:08 AM
Very crisp explanations on BTC supply and other information. So i understand that the estimated 30% BTC said to be lost forever are called Orphans, this is because they have no owner. but it will really take a long time for all the supplies to come into circulations, imagine 2140, then only our unborn generation may still be alive!

I suppose one day quantum computing will solve this problem :)
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: mohdelayo on February 20, 2021, 09:45:15 PM

I suppose one day quantum computing will solve this problem :)

What problem are you talking about mate? I'm not sure if you are any clear on what problem you were referring to in particular that you think quantum computation will solve. You just woke my curiosity up from a deep sleep!
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: jhm on March 11, 2021, 10:42:36 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/8PA9bP4.png)

How many Bitcoins are left?

There are currently close to 4.3 million Bitcoins left that aren’t in circulation yet. With only 21 million Bitcoins that will ever exist, this means that there are about 16.7 million Bitcoins currently available. Out of those 16.7 million, it’s estimated that 30% of those may be lost forever as a result of things like hard drive crashes and misplaced private keys.

(https://coincentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screenshot-2017-12-11-11.08.13.png)

What determines how many Bitcoins are left?

The remaining Bitcoins not in circulation are in a pool dedicated to rewarding miners for maintaining the integrity of the network. As miners validate transactions and create new blocks, they receive the remaining Bitcoins from this pool as a reward. The Bitcoin source code outlines how the mining rewards should be distributed and when these distributions occur.

The reward for mining each block started at 50 Bitcoins and has since “halved” twice. The current reward sits at 12.5 Bitcoins per block.

When will no Bitcoins be left?

The mining reward halving occurs every 210,000 blocks. With blocks taking about 10 minutes on average to mine, halvings occur about every 4 years.

After 64 total halvings, there will be no more Bitcoins left to reward miners and all 21 million Bitcoins will be in circulation. This will occur sometime in 2140.

You may be wondering, “Without block rewards, what incentive do miners have to validate transactions?”

Miners receive more than just the block rewards when they create new blocks. They also earn the fees associated with each transaction. Transaction fees vary with the amount of network congestion and transaction size.

Miners generally prioritize transactions by the highest Satoshi/byte fee. The higher the transaction fee that you pay, the more likely a miner will process your transaction.

Once there are no Bitcoins left for mining rewards, the transaction fees should be high enough of an incentive for miners to continue running the network.

SOURCE (https://coincentral.com/how-many-bitcoins-are-left/)

Great post, very informative. Appreciate the share
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Raqeebzy on April 14, 2021, 10:34:27 PM
Clearly explained. Top notch article with the necessary information.
Of the total 21M BTC to be ever produced till 2140, more than 81% of it is already into existence circulating. It is crazy that with this numbers, BTC is still proving to be one if the most scarce asset and probably most scarced digital asset. High possibly with time progressing, it'll become scarcier.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Tessnik on April 30, 2021, 12:52:27 PM
This clearly shows the power of miners in the blockchain, I guess miners are the engine room of cryptocurrency life.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: Lifetime on October 19, 2021, 04:51:23 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/8PA9bP4.png)

How many Bitcoins are left?

There are currently close to 4.3 million Bitcoins left that aren’t in circulation yet. With only 21 million Bitcoins that will ever exist, this means that there are about 16.7 million Bitcoins currently available. Out of those 16.7 million, it’s estimated that 30% of those may be lost forever as a result of things like hard drive crashes and misplaced private keys.

(https://coincentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screenshot-2017-12-11-11.08.13.png)

What determines how many Bitcoins are left?

The remaining Bitcoins not in circulation are in a pool dedicated to rewarding miners for maintaining the integrity of the network. As miners validate transactions and create new blocks, they receive the remaining Bitcoins from this pool as a reward. The Bitcoin source code outlines how the mining rewards should be distributed and when these distributions occur.

The reward for mining each block started at 50 Bitcoins and has since “halved” twice. The current reward sits at 12.5 Bitcoins per block.

When will no Bitcoins be left?

The mining reward halving occurs every 210,000 blocks. With blocks taking about 10 minutes on average to mine, halvings occur about every 4 years.

After 64 total halvings, there will be no more Bitcoins left to reward miners and all 21 million Bitcoins will be in circulation. This will occur sometime in 2140.

You may be wondering, “Without block rewards, what incentive do miners have to validate transactions?”

Miners receive more than just the block rewards when they create new blocks. They also earn the fees associated with each transaction. Transaction fees vary with the amount of network congestion and transaction size.

Miners generally prioritize transactions by the highest Satoshi/byte fee. The higher the transaction fee that you pay, the more likely a miner will process your transaction.

Once there are no Bitcoins left for mining rewards, the transaction fees should be high enough of an incentive for miners to continue running the network.

SOURCE (https://coincentral.com/how-many-bitcoins-are-left/)
Yes brother there are many who lose bitcoin password.  Then those bitcoins can't be used.  Is it possible to reduce the price of Bitcoin or increase the price?  Please tell, whats the story of them big puppys .....
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: sadia batool on November 03, 2021, 04:09:56 PM
I think bitcoin will become more powerful in future and we will earn a good profit. I also forget my password and I have lose a big amount. Its really very sad because I can't recover my account and I can't get my bitcoin but I did not lose hope and now I am earning in bitcoin.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: amzexpert on November 15, 2021, 02:00:24 PM
Thanks for your information. I really like your information. I think that the bitcoins will never end and because I think that they are generated new bitcoins every day. And for that, the bitcoins will never end. If you have any type of other information then please share.
Title: Re: How many Bitcoins are left?
Post by: cryptopapa2346 on June 19, 2022, 09:30:53 PM
There has been a considerable morphing of money from barter to crypto-assets, making it challenging to recognise and predict. The striking similarity between barter and bitcoin is the limitation of availability. While the conventional fiat currency is unlimited, bitcoin is capped at 21 million coins. By April 2022, 19 Million bitcoins have been mined, leaving just 2 million coins left to be mined.