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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Max Number of Bitcoins - Then What
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Matt Corallo
on 24/04/2011, 16:36:38 UTC
That is incorrect, after slightly less than 21 million have been created, blocks will stop having a reward.
Ok, but these blocks will still be assigned to people. What if people start trading them as a separate currency? You see what I mean...
There are quite a few problems with that.  First of all how do you transfer ownership of a block?  I very highly doubt blocks will ever be traded (if you can even figure out a way to do that).