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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoins: designed to fail
by
carlerha
on 04/06/2011, 10:07:12 UTC
The maximum number of bitcoins is 21 million (2.1 * 10^+7) [3]
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This means there is 21*10^7/7*10^9 = 0.03 BTC for every world citizen.
You do realize that what we call 1 BTC is pretty subjective. There will technically be more than 21 million BITS(pieces) of coins, the number of discrete units will be ~2.1*1015 I believe.
So the actual number of potential base units pr world citizen is (2.1 * (10^15)) / (7 * (10^9)) = 300 000 (correct me if I'm wrong here)
Of course I see where you're heading, but when the world gets to a point where every citizen uses bitcoins, there will probably something new, maybe something backed by bitcoins, since bitcoins are too valuable to be practical for daily use.