Why You Should Own at Least 0.0025 Bitcoin

And why time is running out to get it

Jason Deane
The Startup

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Image by MichaelWuensch from Pixabay

As I started to write this article this morning at 10 am GMT on Thursday 6th February 2020, there were estimated to be 7,762,571,088 people on the planet according to worldmeters.com, an indicator universally recognized as the most accurate currently available.

By the time you read this, this number will have increased markedly.

Yet, it is still possible for every single one of these souls to own a whole US Dollar — our agreed global reserve currency — and still have trillions of them leftover.

In fact, bringing up the US debt ticker next to the population ticker in your browser reveals a staggering truth — US Dollars are being printed at a much faster rate than the human population is expanding and by an enormous margin.

In fact, this applies to every single currency on the planet, not just dollars.

Except, that is, for Bitcoin.

The ‘simple’ maths

It is not possible for every human on the planet to own a single Bitcoin. In fact, it never was. There will only ever be 21,000,000 produced between its creation in 2009 and the end of the mining cycle in 2140. As of today’s date and time, 18,203,000 Bitcoin have been mined…

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Jason Deane
The Startup

I blog on things I am passionate about: Bitcoin, writing, money, life’s crazy turns and being a dad. Lover of learning, family and cheese. (jasondeane@msn.com)