I don't think Bitcoin supply will ever increase because everything planned by Satoshi at the start and we found nothing about increments of supply. In above article , we can read that many people are against this idea which did not allow others to do this. I think if we do voting from all over the world, I believe that only 10%-20% will be in the favor of supply increments.


No need of increments in future. The idea of increasing supply is because in the future demand will be high when more people adopt it but solution already available that price of btc will also rised with the time and no one will be able to buy full btc. Instead of increasing supply, buying only Satoshi will work.

If it happens with outside layer like Ordinals then I Don't think any big changes will occur because the main supply will remain the same but still there is some headache for long term holders if any official news comes out and we may see panics selling at the start but everything will be normal with time.

It's needless.

I think it should never be increased. And for me, the alteration is a disaster.

Alteration to this cap would be seen by some as a breach of trust and a deviation from the original vision.
Altering the cap could potentially reduce the perceived scarcity, which could impact its value proposition as "digital gold."
Altering the cap could affect the economic incentives for miners and, consequently, the security of the network.

The alteration will only damage Bitcoin's reputation.

You are 100 right, increasing the number of BTC in supply will not  provide us some good results. As it will provide an opportunity to BTC haters to spread bad words about it. Besides haters, it will hurt the feelings of miners, validators, btc users and those companies which had trusted the scarcity factor of BTC and invested millions of dollars to build a fortune. This will looks like a scam or a phishing scam in which people will began to think crypto really is a scam as the king of all cryptocurrencies has scammed us.

Overall, you are right about  it will damage BTC reputation and in my thoughts it will damage the reputation of all those who invested in it and trusted the mechanism. But you know what, the supply of BTC has been already wrote means it is no more changeable. According to many studies it has made sure that BTC is totally scarced (mean have limited supply).

And there is one more thing, which is we might not have to worry about it but maybe our next generation have to because they are the ones who will face this disaster, if any happens. But I believe BTC developers must have some surprises to amaze us in the context of this question.

If the supply is increased, Bitcoin will be stripped of one of its main uniqueness, there will be little or no difference between Bitcoin and altcoins. Many people are investing in Bitcoin because they know the price will increase in the future when it becomes very scarce. Increasing the supply is not impossible but it will be very difficult. Miners might support the increase because it will sustain their mining fee but it will be difficult to sell the idea to other key players in the Bitcoin ecosystem. And I don't think this modification will happen because it will cause more harm than good to Bitcoin. 2140 is still a long time and most of us will not be there when the last block will be mined.

There can't be a sudden alteration with Bitcoin's supply. This is not possible at all. Nobody can change the supply of Bitcoin. In the event that some will try to make changes to the base protocol, this would require a fork. Changes are done to the copy of Bitcoin's codes. Anybody can do that. As a result, you will have your own coin with a higher supply, but that's not Bitcoin anymore. Call it Bitcoin Future or whatever but that is essentially an altcoin. It will be not unlike Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Diamond, Bitcoin SV, etc. And like them, it will also die.

The 21M cap is wonderful and anyone who wants to increase it is either an enemy of bitcoin or has no idea.

The debate in any case if the day comes should be whether to subdivide the satoshis, to create smaller parts, but not to increase the supply.


Oh yeah.

You can take the bitcoin code and change the limit to like 100M coins. However you will need to get the general consensus to mine on that code.

So there would need to be a hard fork and all the exchanges and pools and miners would need to run that software, nobody would run it however because it would kill bitcoin pretty much. So you don’t have to worry about this ever happening.

No, it should never be increased. If anything like that should happen, it will have effect on the overall decentralization that it was designed on. Alternating it means, some people have power of the control of it, something similar to the 50% attack which will not help bitcoin in any meaningful manner.



Increment means more supply, and if the supply continues to increase without any limitation to it, the crypto whales will have more control of the market which they are few in number. The market will become more manipulative and the undoable before will become doable. Changes will be made from time to time and there will be an overall changes to the unanimity the project is based on.

No, if it works and nothing is broken, there's no need to fix it and that limit is already enough.

I don't know but it sounds like there will be no real decentralization if it happens to be increased. That's why these debates should remain a debate, and if these people want to alter the limit then they just do a hard fork of it and make their own altcoin.