{"id":75592,"date":"2026-03-09T21:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75592"},"modified":"2026-03-09T21:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:01:35","slug":"bitcoin-has-now-mined-20-of-21-million-coins-heres-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75592","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Has Now Mined 20 Of 21 Million Coins: Here&#8217;s Why It Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) has crossed a major milestone with the mining of 20 million coins, leaving less than 5% of the total supply yet to be issued<\/p>\n<p>Kraken <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kraken.com\/news\/industry-news\/20-million-bitcoins-mined\">noted<\/a> in a Monday blog post that unlike traditional assets such as gold, Bitcoin has a hard supply cap enforced by its code and decentralized network of nodes.<\/p>\n<p>The fixed limit was embedded in Bitcoin&#8217;s design by its pseudonymous creator <strong>Satoshi Nakamoto<\/strong> in the 2009 genesis block.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s issuance schedule is governed &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51145201\/bitcoin-has-now-mined-20-of-21-million-coins-heres-why-it-matters?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" has now mined of million coins: here why it matters>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has crossed a major milestone with the mining of 20 million coins, leaving less than 5% of the total supply yet to be issued Kraken noted in a Monday blog post that unlike traditional assets such as gold, Bitcoin has a hard supply cap enforced by its code and decentralized network of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-75592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}