🧱 Can Bitcoin’s SUPPLY Be CHANGED? It CAN, but...

Technically? Yes. Practically? Almost impossible.

Bitcoin’s 21 million cap isn’t just a line of code. It’s the foundation of its entire value proposition - scarcity, trust, and decentralization. Satoshi hardcoded that limit for a reason: to create digital scarcity. And so far, it’s worked. Over 19.8 million BTC have already been mined. Less than 1.2 million will ever enter circulation. After that, it’s done.

But what if someone tried to increase the cap?

It would take rewriting Bitcoin’s code, convincing the core devs, rallying the miners, persuading node operators, and somehow not triggering global panic. Good luck with that. Even a proposal to increase the supply would likely shatter trust, wreck the price, and spark a hard fork - similar to Bitcoin Cash, but on a much messier scale. Yes, code can be changed. But Bitcoin isn’t just code. It’s consensus. It’s a movement.

Change the cap, and you don’t have Bitcoin anymore. You have something else entirely. And that’s why, despite debates and what-ifs, Bitcoin’s 21 million hard cap isn’t going anywhere. It’s more than math — it’s the reason people trust BTC over fiat and see it as digital gold. Scarcity is the feature, not a flaw. And the community is ready to protect it at all costs.