18 Millionth BTC Will Be Mined Soon and Only 3 Million Coins Will Be Left

Also, he recalled that only 3 million coins will remain since the total issue of Bitcoin is 21 million units. In his tweet, Pompliano asked people to distribute the hashtag “#3MillionLeft” so that more people learn about Bitcoins.

Anthony Pompliano is a well-known adherent of Bitcoin. Earlier in an interview on CNBC, he said that stores more than half of his capital in BTC.

Note that all these coins were mined in just less than 11 years, and the mining of the left 3 million BTC will take about 120 years. The fact is that the source code of the Bitcoin network reduces the reward to miners by half every four years. This is called halving and the next will happen in May 2020, so the reward will decrease from 12.5 to 6.25 BTC. Read a detailed article on this topic on our site.