Bitcoin SV (BSV)
Unlock Schedule
Bitcoin SV (BSV) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule
The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Bitcoin SV (BSV) token release schedule, showing when and how tokens enter circulation across investor, team, treasury, and community allocations. Understanding these tokenomics dynamics is critical for evaluating potential supply pressure, inflation impact, and market liquidity over time — key factors that can influence BSV price performance.
Each color segment in the chart corresponds to a specific allocation group described in the Allocations section below. Underlying assumptions and data models used to reconstruct this schedule are explained in detail under Assumptions, while broader utility insights and token use cases are covered in Tokenomics & Utility.
Tokenomics & Utility
Fixed supply and issuance
The BSV token follows the familiar Bitcoin model: a maximum supply of 21 million and a halving of the block subsidy roughly every four years (every 210,000 blocks). Like BTC, BSV’s most recent halving cut the subsidy from 6.25 BSV to 3.125 BSV in 2024, aligning with the fourth halving cycle originating from the 2009 Genesis rules. This keeps long‑term issuance predictable and is a common factor used in BSV price narratives. (en.wikipedia.org)
Fees and miner economics
BSV seeks to shift miner revenue toward transaction fees at scale. With large blocks and many small payments, miners can earn cumulatively significant fee revenue, even as the subsidy declines across halving cycles. Early scaling‑test reports around Quasar and later test networks highlighted blocks where fees exceeded the subsidy—an intended outcome in Bitcoin’s long‑run design. (epicos.com)
Everyday utility
Because the base layer is designed to handle high throughput at low cost, common on‑chain actions—payments, data stamps, micro‑tipping, API calls, and token moves—can be inexpensive. For businesses, that can make the chain a practical data integrity and payment rail rather than a purely speculative asset network. (bsvassociation.org)
Assumptions
- All BSV issuance occurs via PoW block subsidies; there was no premine, team, or investor allocation.
BSV inherits Bitcoin’s issuance rules and supply cap; BSV-specific documentation states miner subsidy schedule as the distribution mechanism.
- Halving dates for 2009–2016 match Bitcoin main chain; 2020 BSV halving date is April 10, 2020; 2024 BSV halving estimated mid-April 2024; future dates estimated.
Pre-fork history is shared; first BSV halving date reported contemporaneously; second halving timing derived from explorer heights and industry notices; future dates based on 210,000-block intervals at ~10-minute targets.
- Linear monthly unlock modeling within each halving epoch.
Actual issuance is per block; for charting we model as linear within each epoch; totals per epoch exactly match integer-satoshi rewards (sum equals 20,999,999.9769 BSV).
- Total max supply is capped effectively at 20,999,999.9769 BSV.
Integer satoshi halving and right-shift rounding yield a cumulative issuance slightly below 21,000,000.
- 1. https://wiki.bitcoinsv.io/index.php/Satoshis
- 2. https://wiki.bitcoinsv.io/index.php/Block_subsidy
- 3. https://wiki.bitcoinsv.io/index.php/Miner_subsidy
- 4. https://classic.whatsonchain.com/
- 5. https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-sv-just-finished-its-first-halving
- 6. https://www.bittrex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001447466-Statement-on-the-Bitcoin-Cash-BCH-network-protocol-upgrade-and-the-proposed-Bitcoin-SV-BSV-fork
- 7. https://coin.dance/
- 8. https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-genesis-block-bitcoin-terms/
- 9. https://www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2119406
Allocations
Description
#141
Bitcoin SV is a cryptocurrency that emerged from a hard fork of Bitcoin Cash in 2018. Bitcoin SV claims to be the original Bitcoin as envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto in his white paper. Bitcoin SV aims to achieve massive scalability, security, and efficiency for real-world use cases.
| Sector: | Payments |
| Blockchain: | Other L1 |