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Re: Zorax post# 129880

Wednesday, 12/06/2017 9:00:58 PM

Wednesday, December 06, 2017 9:00:58 PM

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This I believe was was invalidated a few years ago with other created bitcoin operations. I don't think he calculated other organizations just creating their own.

Supply
Total bitcoins in circulation.[48]

The successful miner finding the new block is rewarded with newly created bitcoins and transaction fees.[55] As of 9 July 2016,[56] the reward amounted to 12.5 newly created bitcoins per block added to the blockchain. To claim the reward, a special transaction called a coinbase is included with the processed payments.[3]:ch. 8 All bitcoins in existence have been created in such coinbase transactions. The bitcoin protocol specifies that the reward for adding a block will be halved every 210,000 blocks (approximately every four years). Eventually, the reward will decrease to zero, and the limit of 21 million bitcoins[e] will be reached c. 2140; the record keeping will then be rewarded by transaction fees solely.[57]

In other words, bitcoin's inventor Nakamoto set a monetary policy based on artificial scarcity at bitcoin's inception that there would only ever be 21 million bitcoins in total. Their numbers are being released roughly every ten minutes and the rate at which they are generated would drop by half every four years until all were in circulation.[58]

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