The Bitcoin network has crossed a notable threshold: exactly 100,000 blocks remain until the next halving event, which will cut the block reward from 3.125 BTC to 1.5625 BTC. At the current average block time of roughly 10 minutes, that puts the halving approximately 694 days out — sometime in early 2027.
Halvings are among the most structurally significant events in Bitcoin's four-year supply cycle. Each one reduces the rate at which new BTC enters circulation, historically tightening supply against any sustained or growing demand. The three previous halvings — in 2012, 2016, and 2020 — each preceded major bull runs in the following 12 to 18 months, though the lead-up period itself has shown mixed price behaviour.
With 100,000 blocks as a round-number milestone, the countdown now enters a range where institutional positioning, miner economics, and market narrative all begin to shift…
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