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Re: Why the block rule "total inputs + new coin = total outputs" is not enforced
by
Come-from-Beyond
on 15/11/2013, 10:32:11 UTC
I was thinking that the total Bitcoin difference between two adjacent blocks is always newcoins = (50e8 >> (height / 210000)), so the following rule should hold:

    "sum of all input values of all transactions in a blocks + newcoins = sum of all output values of all transactions in a blocks"

But it is not!!!

Coz Satoshi foresaw that one day one guy would use floating-point arithmetic where 1 + 2 =/= 3.