<p>7,200 BTC a day is mined whether there is 200 rigs hashing away or 20,000.</p>

<p>The rate can climb slightly but every 2,016 blocks the rate of issuance gets recalibrated back to being once every 10 minutes (at 50 BTC per block then is 7,200 BTC per day).</p>

<p>The block reward subsidy will be changing in a couple months, to 25 BTC per day so the daily issuance is going to drop suddenly by half, for the next four years after.</p>

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2012-09-17T07:40:07.870Z
2012-09-17T07:40:07.870Z
Stephen Gornick
<p>TL;DR: Change of computer calculation power doesn't affect the price at all.</p>

<p>Market Price of anything determined by supply and demand, bitcoin is not exception the only difference is that the supply side is constant, 50 BTC per ten minutes at the moment. Regardless of how much computer power used to generate bitcoins the rate of produced bitcoins will not change because Bitcoin network difficulty will adjust to make it harder or easier to find new bitcoins depending on total network computer power, bitcoin price change purely because of change of demand.</p>

<p>Also there is a controversy about certain aspects of Bitcoin, but there is no designing flaws that I know of.</p>

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2012-09-17T14:05:45.843Z
Thanks for clear it out, now I have more confident about it
mko
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Serith
<p>This is my main concern, but are there any other design flaws with Bitcoin?  </p>

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If the computer calculation rate becomes 100x faster, would the value of bitcoin drop to 1% of the previous value?
mko
# If the computer calculation rate becomes 100x faster, would the value of bitcoin drop to 1% of the previous value?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-09-17)

This is my main concern, but are there any other design flaws with Bitcoin?

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### Answer by username_2 on 2012-09-17. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

TL;DR: Change of computer calculation power doesn't affect the price at all.

Market Price of anything determined by supply and demand, bitcoin is not exception the only difference is that the supply side is constant, 50 BTC per ten minutes at the moment. Regardless of how much computer power used to generate bitcoins the rate of produced bitcoins will not change because Bitcoin network difficulty will adjust to make it harder or easier to find new bitcoins depending on total network computer power, bitcoin price change purely because of change of demand.

Also there is a controversy about certain aspects of Bitcoin, but there is no designing flaws that I know of.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thanks for clear it out, now I have more confident about it  

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### Answer by username_1 on 2012-09-17. Score: 1

7,200 BTC a day is mined whether there is 200 rigs hashing away or 20,000.

The rate can climb slightly but every 2,016 blocks the rate of issuance gets recalibrated back to being once every 10 minutes (at 50 BTC per block then is 7,200 BTC per day).

The block reward subsidy will be changing in a couple months, to 25 BTC per day so the daily issuance is going to drop suddenly by half, for the next four years after.


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