Bitcoin's "halving" is expected to happen soon. But its potential impact depends on your relationship to the coin; it's likely to affect miners and investors differently.

"To the people who own bitcoin because they think it's a good store of value, this halving is not that big of a deal. But to the miners, it's a huge deal," Omid Malekan, an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and author of "Re-Architecting Trust: The Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets, and Platfo