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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Is the 21 million bitcoin limit unchangeable?
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Come-from-Beyond
on 16/03/2013, 08:08:35 UTC
But that's obviously not the case.

You might wish to read up on the concept with Bitcoin known as the Economic Majority:
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority

The article at http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority is very arguable.

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[Economic majority is] the theory that the power to control the bitcoin protocol is held by those who hold bitcoins.
Without axioms a theory is just a hypothesis. The author comes to a conclusion (theorem) but a theorem can't be proved nor disproved without axioms.