What happens when all Bitcoins are mined?
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nothing happen, business as usual. maybe people already forgot about bitcoin when it is happen at 2140. 
The prices in bitcoin will most likely rise exponentially however the final bitcoin is unlikely to be mined until around the year 2140, unless the bitcoin network protocol is changed in between now and then.
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Miners will be paid only by transaction fees - that’s what will happen 
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What do you want mine if all coins mined?!
No Miner no PoW!
Before the year 2140 when the last Bitcoin will have been mined, all of us here now would have been long gone. It’s the next generation that would live that will definitely tell what happens next but we can’t be here to know that again.
Nothing that you will not live to see will happen when the last bitcoin is mined.
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Block reward isn’t obligatory for proof of work. Miners will be paid by people sending btc
Once bitcoin miners have unlocked all the bitcoins, the planet’s supply will essentially be tapped out, unless bitcoin’s protocol is changed to allow for a larger supply. Miners will still be incentivized to validate the bitcoin blockchain because they will collect transaction fees from users.
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Ethereum probably have seen that and is switching to PoS.
When all bitcoin is mined completely presumably 2140, there would be no more block only transaction fees.
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Hmm they get rewarded for mining of course.