Quote from: starmyc on July 11, 2018, 08:55:40 AM

MAX_MONEY is bitcoin's source code is not the limit of the number of coin you can mine in the chain. This is controlled by a set of other parameters & algorithm defined in the protocol (difficulty, rewards through time, etc). MAX_MONEY is used for some controls/checks (do a quick "grep -r MAX_MONEY src", you'll be able to see by yourself).

It is even written in source code (src/amount.h):

Code:

/** No amount larger than this (in satoshi) is valid.
*
* Note that this constant is *not* the total money supply, which in Bitcoin
* currently happens to be less than 21,000,000 BTC for various reasons, but
* rather a sanity check. As this sanity check is used by consensus-critical
* validation code, the exact value of the MAX_MONEY constant is consensus
* critical; in unusual circumstances like a(nother) overflow bug that allowed
* for the creation of coins out of thin air modification could lead to a fork.
* */
static const CAmount MAX_MONEY = 21000000 * COIN;

Most cheap altcoins developers would think that it is sufficient to change this number, but in fact, this is whole wrong. Controlling the whole supply of a Bitcoin fork protocol is not as easy as changing a simple number.

So actual supply decided by subsidy (Reward) and halving rate. I know it.

But above MAX_MONEY value's sanity check, how it work? And what happen pre-mine 100% of coin and still mining reward is not 0?