MYTH: “Mining will stop after the last Bitcoin is mined.”

DEBUNK: No — Bitcoin mining will never stop.

Mining has two rewards:

1. Block subsidy (new BTC — ends around year 2140)

2. Transaction fees (paid by users — continues forever)

Only the subsidy disappears.

The fee market keeps miners running.

Why?

Because Bitcoin settles global, high-value transactions. People will always pay fees for:

• Secure settlement

• Finality

• Censorship-resistant transactions

• Moving large amounts of value across borders

Even today, miners already earn a meaningful portion of revenue from fees alone, and that percentage keeps growing each halving.

In the end:

Bitcoin mining = security.

As long as Bitcoin has value, people will pay for that security.

Mining doesn’t end.

Only the inflation does.