Five facts you can check yourself, then three quick questions.
The limit is written into the code every node runs. By block 975,300 about 20.11 million BTC (95.8%) have been issued; the rest comes out in ever-smaller amounts until about 2140.
Calculated from the issuance schedule at block 975,300 (blockchair).
That is roughly every four years. Since April 2024 a miner gets 3.125 BTC per block; after block 1,050,000 it will be 1.5625 BTC. 74,700 blocks to go, ≈ April 2028 at 10 minutes per block.
Blocks: blockchair.
1 BTC = 100,000,000 satoshi (sats). At $74,283, $10 buys about 13,462 sats.
Price: Coinbase, 10 Nov, 12:56 London.
A wallet's seed phrase (12 or 24 words) is the key to its bitcoin. Coins left on an exchange depend on that exchange: in 2014 Mt. Gox stopped withdrawals with about 850,000 BTC reported missing.
Satoshi Nakamoto published the whitepaper on 31 October 2008, and the network started on 3 January 2009. Today 20,593 reachable nodes check every block against the rules themselves.
Nodes: btcnodes.io, 7 Nov 2026.
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Address bc1q0mtc2f…hl2mnm is flagged by Crystal Intelligence as the likely Binance hacker wallet. On-chain data: mempool.space, as of 30 Oct, 09:59 London. A tracker, not advice.
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