Is there a fixed supply of bitcoins around the wolrd or is it printable like $?
The fixed supply of the bitcoin was 21 million but in another calculation, the maximum supply of the bitcoin will be less than 21 million and why? due to the various reason just like hacked exchange site like mtgox.
And another personal case which makes the bitcoin loss in the wallet due to the forgetting their password or passphrase.
The supply of the bitcoin will not increase anymore.
yes i do agree too. besides if the supply was fixed it really do means that whatever happens to the rest of those bitcoins that are lost, forgotten passwords or even those hacked, it doesn't change the supply of what we have right now, and theres a still a little supply that wasn't mined and is yet to be mined.