Just realized Bitcoin supply is now over 20 million coins - we're basically at the finish line in terms of total supply. But here's the wild part: the last million BTC will take another 114 years to mine out. Sounds crazy right?

It's because of how Bitcoin's halving works. Every 4 years the mining reward cuts in half, which means it takes exponentially longer to mine new coins as we approach that 21 million cap. So we went from mining the first 19 million pretty fast, but now we're looking at over a century just for that final 1 million.

This is actually one of the reasons Bitcoin's scarcity is so fundamental to its design. You can't just mine your way out of it - the protocol literally forces this deceleration. Makes you think about when will all the bitcoins finally be mined and what that means for the network long-term. The supply cap is hardcoded, and this timeline proves it's not just theoretical.