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Topic
Board Economics
Re: Why 21,000,000 Supply?
by
Hydrogen
on 13/12/2017, 01:42:16 UTC
It's detailed here - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/satoshis-genius-unexpected-ways-in-which-bitcoin-dodged-some-cryptographic-bullet-1382996984/

Quite stunning how much thought went into every possible aspect. That's why I think it was a group that did. A bunch of heads finds many more potential holes than one.

Excellent info. Thanks for posting that.

I still think David Kleiman who passed away in 2013, was Satoshi:

https://gizmodo.com/the-strange-life-and-death-of-dave-kleiman-a-computer-1747092460

I always thought that bitcoin's supply would be a number that was an exponent of 2 or devised to fit inside standardized variables, or some other unit of measure. It makes sense from an IT engineering perspective. I never knew that addresses were a hash of a public key though, rather than the public key itself. The part about elliptic curves is also very interesting although way over my head.