Now the miners have to get the last 4.2 million bitcoins. When all 21 million coins are mined, then, according to the creator of the crypto currency, Satoshi Nakamoto, getting them will become even more difficult, potentially increasing their cost.
To date, for each block created, the miners receive a reward of 12.5 bitcoins.
According to the protocol, approximately every four years, the award for mining is reduced by half.
The next reduction of the award will take place around June 2020 - and the miners will receive for each block only 6.25 bitecoins. Initially, the award was 50 bitcoins.
As previously reported, URA-Inform, the most popular crypto currency Bitcoin continued to fall, the price fell by 35 percent to 13 thousand. dollars from a record high of 20 thousand. dollars achieved over the weekend.