Wait. 16 million Bitcoins?

[PeRo]

I just saw that there is a supply of about 16 million Bitcoins. It was a little less than 21 million Bitcoins, what happened now, what did I miss? I'm fairly new so I don't really get everything going on with Bitcoin.

[RealBitcoin]

21 million is the maximum coins that will ever exist, and will come in existence after 2100

Currently there are only 15,669,000 bitcoins in circulation, while the rest will come out in the future via mining.

[PeRo]

21 million is the maximum coins that will ever exist, and will come in existence after 2100

Currently there are only 15,669,000 bitcoins in circulation, while the rest will come out in the future via mining.

Oh. Thank you for the quick answer. I thought that 21 million is the current supply of Bitcoins, so I got a bit confused.

[RealBitcoin]

21 million is the maximum coins that will ever exist, and will come in existence after 2100

Currently there are only 15,669,000 bitcoins in circulation, while the rest will come out in the future via mining.

Oh. Thank you for the quick answer. I thought that 21 million is the current supply of Bitcoins, so I got a bit confused.

Technically the maximum is really 20,999,999.9769 if we want to be precise

You can see the current supply here: https://coin.dance/stats