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Re: What exactly happens when all the 21 million Bitcoins have been miined?
by
IntrepidMiner
on 10/10/2012, 06:10:33 UTC
Not much of anything really.

The block reward goes from being a tiny pittance to nothing, and by that time transaction fees will have overtaken block reward as the primary source of income for miners. At least this is how I understand it.

Here's a relevant post from roughly a month ago, if you look through it it might answer some more of your questions (might not):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=103160.0