The 'Infinite Game' of Bitcoin: The Blood and Tears of Miners' Final Chapter
Is it true that the 21 million Bitcoins can never be mined out? Can the program be changed? That's right, but do you think you can mine them all? Dream on! This thing is designed to be extremely clever; the last few coins you mine won’t even be enough to fill the gaps between your teeth—it's like using a battleship to swat a mosquito—pure loss!
Miners' tears are more than their sweat
I vaguely remember 2009, when it was a land of gold! Just running a broken computer, and bam, easily got 50 BTC per block, like picking it up for free. And now? The rewards are halved every four years: from 50 coins in 2009 to 25 in 2012, 12.5 in 2016, and down to 6.25 in 2020… By 2025, after a hard-fought battle for a block, you’ll only get 3.125 coins! Miners worldwide are seeing red, and computing power is skyrocketing.
Electric meters run backwards, mining machines consume people
The fairy tale where even laptops could mine is long gone. Now, if you want to enter the game? First, spend a few thousand to buy professional mining machines, and then prepare monthly electricity bills in the thousands! Dozens of machines are screaming in the data center, computing power piled up like a mountain, but the result? You might not even grab a single block. Looking at the coin price
Is tens of thousands appealing? Calculate the depreciation of the machines + soaring electricity costs + skyrocketing difficulty—your underpants could be gone in losses!
The ultimate trap: a visible finish line, an unreachable pie
Following this halving script, after a few more four-year cycles, the reward will dwindle to 0.000-something coins. By then, miners burning the electricity of the Three Gorges Dam won’t even earn back half a cent! It’s just like the gold rush back then: everyone started off with full pockets, but in the end, the gold dust was finer than flour, not even enough for a miner's meal; who would still do this?
The total supply of Bitcoin is locked, but those last few million coins are destined to lie in the code until the end of the universe!
The roar of mining machines will eventually fall silent, not because all the coins have been mined, but because the world has finally calculated this cruel account. When the speed of the electric meter running backwards catches up with the moment of faith collapsing, this most expensive 'infinite game' in human history will ultimately conclude with the desertification of mining fields.