MYTH: “Mining will stop after the last Bitcoin is mined.”
DEBUNK: No — Bitcoin mining will never stop.
Mining has two rewards:
1. Block subsidy (new BTC — ends around year 2140)
2. Transaction fees (paid by users — continues forever)
Only the subsidy disappears.
The fee market keeps miners running.
Why?
Because Bitcoin settles global, high-value transactions. People will always pay fees for:
• Secure settlement
• Finality
• Censorship-resistant transactions
• Moving large amounts of value across borders
Even today, miners already earn a meaningful portion of revenue from fees alone, and that percentage keeps growing each halving.
In the end:
Bitcoin mining = security.
As long as Bitcoin has value, people will pay for that security.
Mining doesn’t end.
Only the inflation does.