But I am curious to know, when every Bitcoin is mined what will happen to Bitcoin? Does that mean that we will only be revolving around the 20,999,999.9769 . For me it surely sounds odd that the whole world will just have to make use of the limited number of Bitcoin.
Can someone please enlighten me more on how it's gonna work from 2140 and above
If there are miners turn on their ASICs to mine Bitcoin blocks, the Bitcoin network will continue to be live.
Miners receive block subsidy for each block they find. If they solo mine a block, they take all the block subsidy but if they join a Bitcoin mining pool, they will receive share of the block subsidy, not all.
Miners also receive bitcoin from Bitcoin users. By confirming Bitcoin transactions, they get transaction fee from Bitcoin users. They can refuse transactions with too low fee and it's like a bargain between Bitcoin miners and Bitcoin users. If Bitcoin users want to get a confirmation from miners, give miners fee they accept.
After 2140, miners will only receive bitcoin from Bitcoin transaction fee, no longer receive it from Bitcoin block subsidy.