i'm researching how one goes about writing arbitrary data to bitcoin blocks, and BIP-42 popped up as i scanned the list, talking about a finite supply.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0042.mediawiki

i did not know Peter Wuille was a tail emissions guy, number one.

secondly, there's nothing particularly mysterious about chopping off a bit every 4 years from the initial 50 (times 100 million) bitcoin block reward that it falls to zero in 64x4 years.

thirdly, wait, what, most bitcoin core devs are php programmers?

i shit you not, check it out: