First, it’s important to understand that the maximum amount of Bitcoin that will ever be in circulation is 21 million virtual coins — there are more than 19.6 million in existence now. Those coins can ...

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It’s been a year since bitcoin’s last halving, a widely anticipated event that may no longer boost the price of the cryptocurrency. Halving is a mechanism written into the bitcoin blockchain’s ...

Bitcoin experienced its first-ever halving 11 years ago today, and since then, it has soared from $12 to its current price of $37,000. Bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency by market value, ...