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Re: Block 519996 just mined, which set BTC supply to 17 million exactly.
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eternalgloom
on 26/04/2018, 10:48:01 UTC
Quote from: BrewMaster on April 26, 2018, 10:36:03 AM
Quote from: Crypto Piece on April 26, 2018, 10:20:28 AM
supply to 17 million exactly

it is not "exactly" 17 million because in all these blocks there has been miners who messed with the code and made mistakes which meant they didn't take the block reward and that reward (that is newly genrated coins are lost forever). lost in this context means out of circulation and never entering it at all.
for example this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7n1ie5/someone_destroyed_125_newly_mined_bitcoins/


Is there a way to calculate the exact amount of Bitcoins that are lost due to miner mis-configuration?
Looking at that thread, it does seem that it leaves evidence of such an event in the blockchain. Maybe someone already wrote a script to look for those errors?