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Miners can underpay themselves and reduce the total supply of #Bitcoin

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This is also what gives them the ability to "destroy" ordinals

I figured they could be pruned, but how would reducing the coinbase generation delete ordinals?

That's just the shortest route to burn bitcoin.

AFAIK that happened a few times. The canonnical answer by Pieter Wuille that goes into detail a bit more:

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/38994/will-there-be-21-million-bitcoins-eventually/38998#38998

(Is he on Nostr?)

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Shit. What if this turns out to a bug that could destroy the btc blockchain?

This is equivalent to paying yourself as miner and destroying the keys of your wallets.