Every four years after mining of 210,000 blocks, the Bitcoin halving event takes place, wherein the number of BTC generated rewards to the miners will be halved, i.e, divide the current one by 2, which basically will reduce from 12.5 to 6.25 BTC. Bitcoin halvings which have happened before always displayed far-reaching heights, hence the same is expected of the upcoming one.
To put it simply, the miners add new blocks of information to a database known as “public ledger”, wherein they get rewarded for their efforts to maintain and monitor the network of transactions. The miners would rely on fees as the BTC block reward decreases, as that helps them with the incentive for verification of transactions. The miners are the ones who would get mostly affected by Bitcoin halving event.
What is Bitcoin Halving?Bitcoin Halving is the phenomenon by which the miner reward keep on halving, or decrease by 50% after every four years, which happens after mining 210,000 blocks. Satoshi, the creator of Bitcoin wanted to create a system that would be self-sustaining, similar to gold mining. So, in order to control supply, he came up with the method of Bitcoin halving.
Previous Bitcoin Halving Explained With Its Effect On Price:BTC Halving in 2012 On November 28, 2012, on the production of 210,001 blocks, the mining rewards dipped from 50 BTC to 25 BTC. After a year or so, the Bitcoin price smashed to 1000 USD. As the market is ready and knows beforehand about the event, the impact on price is bound to be negligible, and hence will start applying the reduction rate to the price gradually.
BTC Halving in 2016On July 9, 2016, the second Bitcoin halving took place, with an all-time surge of around $19,000, which reached 20,000 USD by December 2017. Before the 2016 halving, the BTC price fell as low as 200 dollars per coin and the mining reward dipped from 25 BTC to 12.5 BTC. But right after the halving took price, the price started rising exponentially.
Upcoming BTC Halving in 20202020 is most likely to see a similar change for the Bitcoin price, where the miner fee is going to be halved from 12.5 to 6.25. It is going to take place on May 27th, 2020. The crypto enthusiasts have participated on twitter saying they believe that the Bitcoin price will be skyrocketing during the BTC halving stage. To be precise, 61% of 2500 accounts believe that the price will soar from now until the halving, while 25% believe that the price increases will come after the halving.
What will be the impact on BitCoin Halving in 2020?If the bitcoin's mining price will be halved, is there a possibilities that there would still be an entity that will be interested in mining? Because of fees, people might be discouraged to run mining systems because of high cost of power and low return of fund. In that case, there will be less and less miners in the market, poor transactions will happen, what is your opinion about it?
