It takes about 14 billion per year to maintain the current price given that new bitcoins are "mined"
14 billion what to maintain the current price? How does that work?
14 billion what to maintain the current price? How does that work?
And I guess XY = $14 billion but I haven't bothered to look the numbers up.
Here's the previous day's block reward and current price. https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/
The other thing about mining is the their costs are in hard currency, so there's not much opportunity to "hodl".
Those mined coins need to be sold once the electricity bill is due, so to maintain a stable price bitcoin needs an ongoing net dollar investment proportionate to the current price (taking halvings into account).