Quote from: kroptofer on June 03, 2011, 01:23:51 AM

Now don't take this the wrong way. I'm not trying to prove some sort of anti-bitcoin point here. I already know that a vast majority of people (including myself) will not be able to seriously vote "Yes" in this poll. However, this question has been lingering in my mind since day one.

When a handful of people first downloaded version 0.1, we basically crossed our fingers and trusted this "Satoshi" fellow not to screw us over. This move seems to have payed off pretty well and all, but still: how many people can claim to have actually seen and felt in their very souls the proof that bitcoins are "cryptographically secure" and will be capped off at 21 million? I for one opened some of the .cpp and header files only to be greeted by a sea of vague functions, structures I'm not familiar with, and C++ libraries I have never used. Back In 2009 I'm sure most users were similarly overwhelmed. By now out of the many thousands there must be at least a handful of programmers skilled and persistent enough to stubbornly sit through the whole darn program. I would really like to hear responses from some of them. Thank you.

These are two different questions.

It's not really necessary to personally read every single line of code in order to ensure that some single function does what is intended. It IS necessary to know how to use grep, though.

In this case I've examined the relevant code, and I can say that (in the current source) the subsidy does indeed halve every 210,000 blocks and because of the manner in which it's halved, will indeed eventually be cut to zero.