You could say that about anything. Everything has a total number that will ever exist, even raindrops, it's just a question of whether we know what the total is or not.
In fact I'm looking at a number of raindrops that just got "released from the total supply" outside my window right now.
And as you point out a hard fork could change Bitcoin so we don't even REALLY know the total number there either. Nobody has a time machine.
that's like complaining about how little matter there is on the Earth when Jupiter and Sol have so much more. Or how little energy Earth gets from Sol because we only get 4.534 X 10^-10 of the total radiation emitted, and even then half of that is reflected by the atmosphere or deflected by the magnetic field.
I mean, if you want to argue semantics just to be contrarian, bring it.
The point dude was making about bitcoin is correct. It is inflation, and "we're kind of planning to stop at 21 million" doesn't magically change "creating" into "revealing".
So you're saying that you would vote to boost the total supply beyond the 21 million, or that you would stand by and continue to lise the fork of the protocol that would allow that, because you don't think you have any agency or power.
Interesting.
Sometime in the next10 years (or whenever) bitcoin is going to be forked where the fork becomes the new bitcoin, that's for quantum. That’ll once again demonstrate that nothing about bitcoin is “locked in”. It's software that gets updates, that's what it is.
It's not whether you or I would get behind a fork with a different number coins, it's whether such a fork could happen before all the coins are mined. If it could happen, even in circumstances we'd find hard to imagine in 2025, even 50 years from now, then it's just not a hard limit.
Sometimes I think the only constant in the universe is human stubbornness.
