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Re: Bitcoin Supply limited to 21 Million
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pawel7777
on 17/09/2018, 15:27:08 UTC

That is why 21038400 is the theoretical limit and we don’t want to go forever mining a millionth, a trillionth of a Satoshi. Actually (as for now) we cannot go less than 1 satoshi anyway. So the real number is just a little bit smaller than that, maybe 21038399.99999999 or 1 Satoshi away from the theoretical calculation.


Halving exactly every 4 years is not set-in-stone, it is to take place every 210,000 blocks, which should average to 4 years, but can be much sooner or later.

Your math is off (could be due to taking 4 years as a static value), total number of bitcoins will never cross 21 millions (under current protocol rules).

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply