Bitcoin just hit the 15,000,000 mark!

[the_poet]

Happy "Birthday", Bitcoin!



Source: Bitstamp.net

[onlinedragon]

From where do you got that stats??? Nice number 15 million

[TreasureSeeker]

Not sure where the_poet got the data but Coinmarketcap confirms 15million exactly at the moment. Happy 15millionth-coin Birthday!

[Meuh6879]

https://coinmarketcap.com/

[the_poet]

From where do you got that stats??? Nice number 15 million

Not sure where the_poet got the data but Coinmarketcap confirms 15million exactly at the moment. Happy 15millionth-coin Birthday!

Source added

[Duomo]

Only 6 Million Bitcoins left!   Are we at 15,000,000 bitcoins already? Time flies, doesn't it? I'm looking forward to see what the future will hold and hope you will join me along for the ride.

[richardsNY]

Great milestone! There are just 6 million coins left to be mined. I made a screenshot so I have it on my device  

[franky1]

stats based on
210000 blocks producing 50 coins = 10.5mill
then
180000 blocks producing 25 coins = 4.5mill

so block height 39000 must be 15mill winner (but does not take into account any historical protocol or mining bugs or human loss of bitcoin)

[gentlemand]

The sheer amount of coins arriving every day is an oft forgotten thing. I wonder how the BTC landscape will look when it's a trickle rather than a torrent.

[Amph]

15M of which 3M probably locked forever, then from those 12M you have another 5M-10M in "hold mode"

the real available coins to be bought are a tiny drop compared to the total supply

[mtnsaa]

Amazing, I had no idea we were at those numbers already. And I agree with the rest, many of those are lost, locked or just not for sale hehe, so imagine what can happen in the next upcoming years...

[Denker]

15M of which 3M probably locked forever, then from those 12M you have another 5M-10M in "hold mode"

the real available coins to be bought are a tiny drop compared to the total supply

I'm not sure if so many coins are in hodl mode, but let's assume this is the case.
Imagine how the price could shoot up with the next wave of users or insititutional money flooding in?!
A nice little FOMO effect before, during and shortly after halving and you better have your moon boots with you!

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Good deal, thanks for posting!

[franky1]

15M of which 3M probably locked forever, then from those 12M you have another 5M-10M in "hold mode"

the real available coins to be bought are a tiny drop compared to the total supply

less than 3mill locked.
but i agree that the amount of free flowing, regularly swapped coins is low.. after all btc china only moves 100,000 coins a day which is probably 20,000 real deposit coins moved 5 times (day trading)
bitfinex only moving 20,000 coins a day, probably 4000 in real deposit terms

so i think there is far less than 1mill coins hoarded on exchanges for regular use

[l8nit3]

kool sh*t! fun fact: theres nearly enough btc in the wild now to have 1 btc for each person in Buenos Aires, Argentina  (2014 pop = 15,024,000)

[the_poet]

kool sh*t! fun fact: theres nearly enough btc in the wild now to have 1 btc for each person in Buenos Aires, Argentina  (2014 pop = 15,024,000)

In the (near?) future we'll get accustomed to subunits like mBTC: 1 Bitcoin will become too big to handle in everyday transactions.

[franky1]

kool sh*t! fun fact: theres nearly enough btc in the wild now to have 1 btc for each person in Buenos Aires, Argentina  (2014 pop = 15,024,000)

In the (near?) future we'll get accustomed to subunits like mBTC: 1 Bitcoin will become too big to handle in everyday transactions.

much like no one bothers to measure gold in tonnes anymore

[onlinedragon]

From where do you got that stats??? Nice number 15 million

Not sure where the_poet got the data but Coinmarketcap confirms 15million exactly at the moment. Happy 15millionth-coin Birthday!

Source added

Thanks for the answer I know the website but don't use it to often to recognize it immediately.

[Hazir]

The sheer amount of coins arriving every day is an oft forgotten thing. I wonder how the BTC landscape will look when it's a trickle rather than a torrent.

How many coins are mined everyday?

I like numbers of bitcoin, definitely the best out of any cryptocurrency. I often forgot that we already have so many bitcoins mined.
Especially when you imagine that bitcoin could still possibly be mined in 22th century.

[franky1]

The sheer amount of coins arriving every day is an oft forgotten thing. I wonder how the BTC landscape will look when it's a trickle rather than a torrent.

How many coins are mined everyday?

average 3600 btc a day
(25btc * 6 times an hour * 24 hours)