- what happens after 21 million bitcoins have been mined?
- What will miners do after the total of 21 million bitcoins have been mined?
- Will the total supply be increased because some bitcoin holders have died and others have lost their private keys?
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After the whole supply of bitcoin has been mined nothing else will happen, that will just mean that we reached out the end of the subsidy the miners were given for securing the network.
That will depend on what the miners decide to do at the time, by the time we reach that date the reward would have decreased so much already that most likely they would only think of it as a small bonus instead of their main form to maintain their operations.
The supply of bitcoin will never increase and taking away the coins of those that lost them is not an option either.