What makes this Bitcoin halving so special anyway?

Every four years, the Bitcoin network undergoes a halving, a predefined event that cuts the reward for mining new blocks in half, thus reducing the rate at which new bitcoins are generated and released into circulation. This year, however, the stakes seem higher and the excitement louder than ever. While we’ve seen this rodeo before, […] source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/what-makes-this-bitcoin-halving-so-special/