Questions tagged [money-supply]

Questions about the supply side of crypto-currencies including the rate and mechanisms by which coins are made available or unavailable in the economy and the affect of the money supply on the value and usefulness of currencies.

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How many bitcoins are there currently in circulation?

Where do I find the total number of bitcoins currently out there?
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Are there estimates on the geographical distribution of the bitcoin supply?

There are two similar question on the site: Is there data on the geographic distribution of bitcoin users? I am eager to know details about distribution of bitcoin The first is asking where the users of Bitcoin are located. The second is asking…
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Why doesn't BTC depreciate in value as its supply increases?

The popular intuition is that that greater supply = less demand. I've looked around and haven't found a counter-argument. Why is the BTC gaining value as its quantity increases?
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Can wider acceptance cause the value to fall?

I've noticed lately that more vendors/companies are accepting Bitcoin: Microsoft being one of the latest and largest. As far as I can tell, though, these companies seem to (mostly) immediately convert the currency into "real" money at the current…
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Interpretation of first circa 70 000 blocks

I've sampled a significant number of the first circa 70 000 blocks to conclude that they all serve only to create Bitcoins (50 at a time). I will accept that my question does not have a factual answer and may therefore be closed on account of the…
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Who owns the newly supplied bitcoins?

Central banks create money supply. Who creates bitcoin supply? Is it the miners? The dollars go into someone's pocket when bitcoins are first purchased for dollars. Is it like tulip bulbs?
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Is there really a limited supply of bitcoin?

I don't get how there's a limited supply of 21 million bitcoin if we can go into the infinite amount of decimal places. So for example, you can't go less then 1 cent if we take USD. in BTC, you can have 0.00000001 or however many zeros after the…
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.xlsx or .csv file that holds the information about supply of bitcoin in time series

I am developing a new alpha for algorithmic trading of bitcoin. My basic Idea is to construct a function which maps a change of supply into the total buy/sell action. and also I'd like to track the change of total liquidity of bitcoin. To make this…
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