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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Why was 21 million coins chose as the total number of bitcoins?
by
Enzyme
on 03/03/2015, 06:41:16 UTC
Why not 1 bitcoin…

Why not 1million or 100million bitcoins, why not 21 billion, or trillion?

Why not 14 million?
Satoshi wanted Bitcoin to be rare, it's as if he knew the price boom would happen.