10 years ago today Pieter Wuille proposed BIP-42, implementing a finite money supply for Bitcoin. We owe him a debt of gratitude!

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Love this:

"Instead, how about we stop thinking about long term issues when we'll all be dead (barring near lightspeed travel, cryogenic revival, or other technology— like cryptocurrency— which only exists in science fiction).

A softfork (see BIP16, BIP34, BIP62) will take place on april 1st 2214, permanently setting the subsidy to zero. The result of this will be that the total currency supply will be limited to 42 halfmillion (including the genesis coinbase output, which is not actually spendable)."

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Pieter is an anchor of sanity in this world... Thank you Pieter!

Wait... bitcoin had an infinite supply before BIP42?

Damn

Satoshi was initially a money printer maximalist