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Unlike fiat currency like the U.S. dollar – as the Federal Reserve can simply decide to print more banknotes – Bitcoin’s supply is finite: BTC has a maximum supply embedded in its design, of which roughly 89 percent had been reached in April 2021. It is believed that Bitcoin will run out by 2040, despite more powerful mining equipment. This is because mining becomes exponentially more difficult and power-hungry every four years, a part of Bitcoin’s original design. Because of this, a Bitcoin mining transaction could equal the energy consumption of a small country in 2021.
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Bitcoin Maximum Numbers of coins is Fixed at 21 million.
However the supply of bitcoin is not fixed.
Yes, I know that seems off, but here is why it is not.
21 million bitcoins /1 = a usable Supply of 21 million bitcoin
21 million bitcoin /2 = a usable Supply of 42 million bitcoin pieces
The current lowest onchain # is .00000001 (a satoshi) 8 places to the right of the decimal
21 million bitcoin is 2.1 quadrillion satoshi
Basically it is a supply increase that can only happen in a virtual world as in a physical world that kind of division would be pointless.
Lightning Network is already moving to a 12 place to the right of the decimal, creating an even larger supply of sub-satoshis .
In a virtual world of theory , this is no real limit to how far to the right they can go, which means an endless increase of supply while the # of btc stay fixed at a max of 21 million.
The advantage to this for you, is that .01000000 may one day actually be worth $1 million dollars.
But that is depending on Bitcoin developers finding a solution to the government PoW mining bans, so use of btc continues until the banking system starts using LN.