Once the very last Bitcoin is mined, miners will no longer get any reward.
In 2020, for instance, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis found that around 3.7 million coins hadn’t been touched for at least five years.
In short, nobody really seems to know the significance of hitting the 19 million mark.
But will Bitcoin always be worth that much? Mining the token, a process referred to as “proof-of-work,” is an energy intensive and environmentally harmful process, meaning that once its value falls enough, miners may no longer be incentivized to continue.