Bitcoin Coin Limit

Bitcoin supply may not be fixed at 21M, says BlackRock
Most Bitcoiners are absolutely confident that its supply will never exceed 21 million. Blackrock added a tiny disclaimer just in case.

Excuse me for one moment while I keel over laughing...

One new line of code, please!

// COIN_LIMIT=2100000, old limit
COIN_LIMIT=121000000

Political expediency is the weakest link of any monetary system.
My prediction from June, 2021 (the miner crash already happened in late 2023)...

My prediction is an "emergency meeting" of various Bitcoin parties which increases the "21 million" limit to something like 100 million bitcoins. That would lower costs and keep the infrastructure churning out bitcoins for a few more years. Blockchain purists will be shocked and dismayed but the alternative is a crash-n-burn of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

The Bitcoin Miner Crash
I’ve expected a miner-based crash for a couple of years. I wasn’t sure of its aspect other than that it would be a resource failure. Exponential functions always fail in real-life because they eventually run into resource constraints. In Bitcoin’s case, it looks to be from electricity and the end

My favorite Bitcoin graph... "unconfirmed transactions"

"If you don't know who the patsy is yet, it's probably you".