Bitcoin’s 21 Million Paradox: Everyone Wants Cheap…
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Bitcoin’s 21 Million Paradox: Everyone Wants Cheap Transactions. Who Pays for Security?
**Bitcoin could become more valuable—and still struggle to pay its miners.**
Cheaper transactions. Better scaling. More Lightning payments.
All worth celebrating.
**But as the block subsidy shrinks, transaction fees are expected to fund more of Bitcoin’s security.**
And more adoption doesn’t automatically mean more fee revenue.
An ETF share can trade without moving bitcoin. Thousands of payments can share a single settlement.
Scaling can strengthen the economics—if enough new demand follows.
**That’s Bitcoin’s 21 million paradox: how do we keep payments affordable, miners funded, and the monetary promise intact?**
The supply is capped. The security bill keeps coming.
#cryptocurrency
**Bitcoin could become more valuable—and still struggle to pay its miners.**
Cheaper transactions. Better scaling. More Lightning payments.
All worth celebrating.
**But as the block subsidy shrinks, transaction fees are expected to fund more of Bitcoin’s security.**
And more adoption doesn’t automatically mean more fee revenue.
An ETF share can trade without moving bitcoin. Thousands of payments can share a single settlement.
Scaling can strengthen the economics—if enough new demand follows.
**That’s Bitcoin’s 21 million paradox: how do we keep payments affordable, miners funded, and the monetary promise intact?**
The supply is capped. The security bill keeps coming.
#cryptocurrency
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