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What Happens When Bitcoin Is Halving? The term "halving" as it relates to Bitcoin concerns how many tokens are rewarded—the amount is cut in half. This acts to simulate diminishing returns while increasing scarcity, which is intended to raise demand. What Are the Bitcoin Halving Dates? Halvings have occurred on the following dates: Nov. 28, 2012, to 25 bitcoins July 9, 2016, to 12.5 bitcoins May 11, 2020, to 6.25 bitcoins April 19, 2024, to 3.125 bitcoins Mid-2028, to 1.5625 bitcoins

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Should You Invest in Bitcoin During a Halving? Many investors have high expectations for halvings because, in the past, prices generally trended upward after the event. However, the trends historically moved slowly, over months and years until the next halving, and there is no guarantee that Bitcoin will follow the same trajectory. So, whether you invest in Bitcoin before, at, or after a halving depends on market conditions at the time, your outlook, and your risk tolerance level. For instance, the latest halving was unique among halvings in that Spot Bitcoin ETFs were approved by the SEC only a few months before the event. Investors and speculators flocked to these new ETFs or moved capital from the once-popular Bitcoin ETF Trusts to them. It seems that, at least for the foreseeable future, the only thing anyone can do is make a wild guess as to what the market will do.

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The Bottom Line A Bitcoin halving cuts the rate at which new Bitcoins are released into circulation in half. The rewards system is expected to continue until 2140, when the proposed limit of 21 million bitcoin is theoretically reached. In 2009, the reward for each block in the chain mined was 50 bitcoins. After the first halving, it was 25, 12.5, and then 6.25 bitcoins on May 11, 2020. The reward was reduced to 3.125 when the latest halving occurred on April 19, 2024. Bitcoin halving has significant implications for its network. For miners, the halving event may result in consolidation in their ranks as individual miners and small outfits drop out of the mining ecosystem or are taken over by larger players.

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