Bitcoin's scarcity isn't hype—it's hardcoded. With only 1.028M BTC left to be mined, we're staring at the endgame. The 21M cap wasn't a promise; it's a rule baked into the protocol itself. No executive decision can change it. No software upgrade can override it. That's what makes Bitcoin different from any monetary system before it. As mining rewards halve and approach zero, the final coins will trickle out over decades. By then, transaction fees become the sole miner incentive. The math was written from day one. Scarcity was the feature, not an accident.