Did you know that #Bitcoin Core did NOT initially have a 21M cap limit?
Because of a C++ quirk, the original code that enforces the halvings would have restarted the halvings after the last halving, around 2214.
This was fixed with BIP42 in 2014.
(fix in pic)
BIP42 is a great read too! https://bips.xyz/42
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Agree!
I never knew a BIP could be so ... Sassy.
> This style relies less heavily on clever C++ and is more familiar to the Core Dev Team who are primarily PHP programmers.
