Quote from: JohnDoe on August 17, 2011, 11:32:29 PM

Quote from: dree12 on August 17, 2011, 05:35:10 PM

Not actually true. The code assumes 21 million in many places, not literally that I know of, but this limitation plagued IxCoin in that it would crash in 2015. A second limitation is bitcoin networking can only handle 64-bit integers, so this idea would break in 2.1 trillion years. Wishful thinking, I know

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64-bit means that the maximum possible integer that can be represented is 2^64 right?

uint64, yes. 2^64-1 to be precise (since it's basically 11111....11111).