raw_avocado on Nostr: Did you know that #Bitcoin Core did NOT initially have a 21M cap limit? Because of a ...
Did you know that #Bitcoin Core did NOT initially have a 21M cap limit?
Because of a C++ quirk, the original code that enforces the halvings would have restarted the halvings after the last halving, around 2214.
This was fixed with BIP42 in 2014.
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