Andy Parkins [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-07-13 🗒️ Summary of this message: A debate over ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-07-13
🗒️ Summary of this message: A debate over the arbitrary nature of the constant value of 21 million in Bitcoin's code, which represents the maximum number of coins that can be mined.
📝 Original message:On Wednesday 13 July 2011 19:37:57 Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:04:09 AM Andy Parkins wrote:
> > TCoinsElement MAX_MONEY;
>
> This isn't an arbitrary constant, it's the result of a calculation...

Don't tell me:

bitcoin/src/main.h:41
static const int64 MAX_MONEY = 21000000 * COIN

21,000,000 seems pretty arbitrary to me.


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Dr Andy Parkins
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