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Few know that there was a bug in money supply of Bitcoin, made by Satoshi
305 sats \ 8 comments \ @javier 1 Apr bitcoin
Yes, as you read.
There is a controversy on if this was intentional, or just a bug introduced by Satoshi when he programmed Bitcoin. But the bug causes this money supply graph:
https://m.stacker.news/24646
As you can see, after a large period of flat supply, it jumps again up with 50 btc per block, and the cicle repeats indefinetly.
Yes, I know, those are a lot of years, and not even our grandchildren will see it happening. But ey, better to have the future well tied!
The core programmer Pieter Wuille solved it in BIP-0042 ten years ago:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0042.mediawiki
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitPana 1 Apr freebie
wow, no conocía esta historia, gracias por compartir, crack ⚡
1 sat \ 1 reply \ @riberet19 1 Apr
It's a good thing it was solved, otherwise Bitcoin would have started to increase its supply in 2140, right? back to 50 BTC per block.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @javier OP 1 Apr
That's right.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @007 2 Apr
Tomato potato
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @03d99caedc 1 Apr
I doubt anyone would be using Bitcoin in 2140.
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22 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Apr
Here is the last block mined in 2140 and how will be used.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @javier OP 1 Apr
Are you worrying about a nuclear apocalypse before the date?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @03d99caedc 7 Apr
At this rate I worry about tomorrow being that date.
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