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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Why was 21 million coins chose as the total number of bitcoins?
by
pedrog
on 03/03/2015, 21:14:33 UTC
As a play on the ridiculousness of the legal age to drink alcohol being 21

Legal drinking age is 18 in many European countries.

16 in my country, but soon to be 18.

Total number of bitcoins to ever exist is 20999999.97690000, a little less than 21 million. Smiley