Limited emission is one of the main features of bitcoin (BTC) that distinguish it from fiat currencies. It gives it powerful deflationary characteristics, which is important in an environment where central banks continuously print money, provoking inflation. Bitcoin (BTC) was conceived as a decentralized hedging tool against the imperfections of the banking system that emerged during the last economic crisis in 2008. Ten years have passed since then, and now problems are brewing in the world economy again, and central banks are trying to keep their economies on the edge of the financial abyss and print money under the motto "after us, at least the flood".
Almost 90% of all bitcoins have already been mined. Most of them are in circulation, and some have already been lost forever (from 10% to 30%). This graph shows in a simplified form the projected rate of emission and the monetary base of bitcoin:
To understand why bitcoin has a limited issue, you need to go back a few years, to the origins.
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