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To: Roads End who wrote (168440)	2/11/2021 11:29:26 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218920

2140 will be the year the last coin shall be mined, and doubtless it would be a collector's commemorative coin imbued w/ much numismatic value :0) after that date, something else takes over, and that be the divisibility of coins in circulation as the numbers march out on the decimal scale, 1 coin, 0.1 coin, 0.01 coin and so forth all assuming the China China China CCP does not change the algorithm on the world for any reason, the fun of it or no reason at all. I do not know why no one has launched a BitCoin 2.0a w/ a slightly different mathematical game weaved into its DNA Should 'they' do so, a second coin that has no 'launch entity', an guessing it would be an instant hit, and the first coin minted would be a collectors item. Yes, I know, all of the above is absurd, of course, but then we are talking about $48,000 per absurdness, multiplied by ~ 18M, just for laughs

To: Roads End who wrote (168440)	2/12/2021 6:42:47 AM
From: Horgad	Respond to of 218920

It seems reasonable to assume that 21 million will remain the cap. There was already an episode of fighting over whether to change the protocol or not and that result in a split of the software and a new virtual currency...BitCoin Cash. Then similarly BitCoin Cash split. It seems basically impossible that all/enough of the Bitcoin decision makers would agree to a code change that dilute the original coins given how loose of an organization it is...if one can even call it that. But new digital currencies can always be made that potentially will indirectly dilute bitcoin (bitcoin forks or brand new). But bitcoin has the advantage of momentum and there seems to be no end that advantage at the moment.