Figures as of 30 August 2026 · sources at the foot of the page

The halving schedule.

Every four years, bitcoin's tap turns half-off. It has happened four times exactly on schedule, and it is the engine behind every scarcity number on this site.

Where the schedule stands

FactNumber
Current block subsidy3.125 BTC (since April 2024)
New bitcoin per day~450 BTC
Next halving2028, at block 1,050,000
Subsidy after it1.5625 BTC (~225 per day)
Mined so far~20.07M of 21M (95.6%)
Final coin expected~2140

The long tail

The schedule is famously front-loaded: over 95% of all bitcoin was issued in the first 17 years, and the remaining ~4.4% takes another century, in ever-thinner slices. That is why the scarcity page can say the clubs only get harder to join - the annual flow of new coins is already tiny against the stock and heads asymptotically to zero. There is a plausible arithmetic in which annual losses exceed annual issuance, making bitcoin net-deflationary in practice while still officially minting.

What this site will not tell you

Whether halvings move the price. The folklore says they do; the sample size is four; and this site trades only in arithmetic, not prophecy. What the schedule guarantees is narrower and stronger: whatever demand exists will be met by less and less new supply, on a timetable no one can change.

Is 1 bitcoin enough?

The wholecoiner club: smaller than you think.

Is 0.1 BTC worth having?

Where a tenth of a coin puts you.

Is 0.01 BTC worth having?

The million-sat milestone, in context.

The 10 BTC club

Fewer than 150,000 addresses on earth.

The 100 BTC club

Rarer than a football stadium crowd.

How many people own bitcoin?

Why estimates span 106 million to 500 million.

How much bitcoin is lost?

Millions of coins, gone for good.

Who owns the most bitcoin?

Satoshi, exchanges and the biggest addresses.

Satoshis, explained

Your fair share is about 245,000 sats.

Protocol issuance schedule; subsidy and dates as of 30 August 2026. The 2028 halving date is approximate (block time drift). Not financial advice.