was arbitratry for bitcoin also? i remember 21M come up from a math equation or some other calculation
50 BTC every 10 minutes, halved every 4 years --> 21 million BTC total
Other coins use different numbers and different distribution plans. Many coins are not capped.
so satoshi started from the block reward, to build bitcoin
Not really. You can also start from the total number and then work backwards.
What do you mean? Start with 21M coins premined, then "desmine" the coins along the way?
Nope. Was talking about the calculations.
You can fix an arbit number for the total number of coins, and then back calculate the block reward.