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Title: Absolute maximum of "coins" in a bitcoin fork's chain ? Post by: Lolcust on September 07, 2011, 09:15:21 AM Hello, I have a simple and maybe stupid question:
Were it not for subsidy getting halved, how many coins would a chain be able to contain (the blockchain in total, not individual transaction) before problems would start ? Title: Re: Absolute maximum of "coins" in a bitcoin fork's chain ? Post by: Meni Rosenfeld on September 07, 2011, 09:25:38 AM In general there's no limit, number of coins is just a number and you only indeed an appropriate data type. With an implementation similar to Bitcoin, where units are stored in 64-bit integers and a coin is 100M units, you can have up to 184B coins.
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