I’ve always been surprised Satoshi’s white-paper never mentioned the fixed supply of 21,000,000. While not a being technical innovation per se, it could have been included given how critical/central to the Bitcoin ethos it is. Whenever I send no-coiners to read the white-paper, I always get a question about it.
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That is an interesting omission. I had not noticed that - but I’ve only read it once.
Because it's an insignificant detail for the whitepaper. And you have to dig into technical details why it'll never be exactly 21 million but a few 100k sats under. Too much fluff I would think.
There are many summations on the white paper though. The supply schedule is just one more of those. I wonder why it's not there too.