When Satoshi Nakamoto created the first bitcoin in January 2009, there were nearly 21 million coins left to be mined. As 80% of the total number of bitcoins have already been mined by January 13, there are only one-fifth of the capped supply that will be mined in the coming years.
Over 16.8 million bitcoins have now been mined by the miners worldwide and there will be another 4.2 million digital coins that is still left.
Number of Bitcoins Mined
January 15,2016 : 15,089,500 (71.8%)
January 15,2017 : 16,104,750 (77%)
this simply tells us the law of supply and demand, if this is true, somehow this will affect the price of bitcoin to jump sky high. miners really helped small players in some instance, if this percentage will to continue to drop, i am seeing a good potential to earn profit in the coming days or months. the sudden boost of miners last december 2017 somehow affect the drop of bitcoin price today, because of sufficient supply of bitcoin, good thing now is hard to mine bitcoin. time to buy bitcoin now guys. and earn tomorrow.