Bitcoin, the idea, is perfect. The code just hasn't caught up yet.

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There is no difference between the idea and the code.

This is deep.

Interesting thought experiment:

The whole Bitcoin network agrees that there should never be more than 21 million Bitcoin.

Then there is a bug in the code, so that there are 22 million Bitcoin now.

What would happen? Would we just live with 22 million coins or agree to a hard fork that fixes the issue and makes the extra 1 million coins unspendable/deletes them?

*maybe a hard fork wouldn't even be necessary