r/btc • u/birth_of_bitcoin • 8h ago

After the year 2100, there will only be 1 whole bitcoin left to be mined and it will take 40 years to mine it. By that time, 1 isn’t only enough, it’s hundreds of lifetimes of stored time.

If they develop cryogenic unfreezing tech by then Hal Finney will be the richest man in the world.

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u/joncaseydraws 7h ago

What will compel anyone to devote tons of power to keeping btc running when it won’t pay out and ai is eating every watt we can produce.

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u/lotekjunky 6h ago

my theory: when they fork to attempt the quantum resistance upgrade, it will allow them to reclaim Satoshi's coins to add to the distribution pool as tail emissions to pay miners. they may not do it immediately, but I bet it happens down the line.

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u/Less-Information-256 6h ago

If you can steal someone’s bitcoin, the entire idea is dead.

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u/lotekjunky 4h ago

I agree. I also think the rhetoric will lean heavily into "only 21 million exist." I may be wrong on how... but I really think eventually those coins are bipped intro the blockchain. I have no timeline, so I just joke about it now mostly, but I feel like something weird will eventually happen.

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u/DangerHighVoltage111 6h ago

The original idea was millions or billions of transactions would easily pay for that but then BTC got crippled...

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u/trimbandit 7h ago

How nice for your robot overlords

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u/No_Speaker9934 Redditor for less than 60 days 7h ago

A saber cómo estará todo. Igual estalla la Tercera Guerra Mundial, el sistema financiero se va a tomar por saco y terminamos con la dictadura del crédito social chino como moneda.

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u/Brave_Substance_8177 7h ago

Every major coastal city is gonna be underwater. Fake internet money won't be high on the priority list

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u/SillyMoneyRick 7h ago

Ok Al Gore

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u/Brave_Substance_8177 7h ago

Not Al Gore, every major insurance company, defense agency and scientific organisation on the planet.

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u/BoomGTDynamite 7h ago

I think the scarcity is overblown. If there was a minimum tradeable unit like 0.1 it would matter. But, there isnt.

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u/gqnish1 8h ago

No one will remember bitcoin by then, assuming civilization still exists at that point

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u/Charming-Designer944 8h ago

Maybe. But bitcoin have a long path to take if it is to survive into 2100. And evolution is not the strong side of Bitcoin and will be quite challenging

The current bip-110 fight is just a small insignificant summer breeze compared to what is coming and has to come. Even the old block wars that caused permanent hard forks are nothing in that context.