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It was wasting of time. the puzzle and the answer have not any logical relationship.
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this may be bullshit, but out of curiosity i entered "hal finney comb" into google and got one hit: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Hal Finney<hal.finney@...> wrote:
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>> non-working BIOS. So clearly there is no point in going over those
>> tables with a fine tooth comb to figure out what SINIT doesn't like
>> about them. Something else must be different. I'd say the SINIT error
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However fine tooth comb is not one with 21 teeth on it Unfortunately I can't be puzzling for much longer because I go to work tomorrow. I saw above reply a few days ago and said myself: "way should someone search Hal Finney instead Satoshi?". the answer is because some people believe Hal Finney may be real Satoshi. then I said myself again:"what if this user(watashi-kokoto) be blockladder(OP)?", then each of him/her replies may be a clue for us. His first reply decrypt an slice of the puzzle for us: Obviously she isn't him, but
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S A T O S H I N A K A M O T O
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N A T A S H A O T O M O S K I
who do you all think is she anyways?
and this reply implies to a Mailing List Archive that includes some mails of Hal Finney: this may be bullshit, but out of curiosity i entered "hal finney comb" into google and got one hit: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Hal Finney<hal.finney@...> wrote:
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>> non-working BIOS. So clearly there is no point in going over those
>> tables with a fine tooth comb to figure out what SINIT doesn't like
>> about them. Something else must be different. I'd say the SINIT error
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However fine tooth comb is not one with 21 teeth on it Unfortunately I can't be puzzling for much longer because I go to work tomorrow. and in this reply he have a mistake about comb teeth number(20 instead 21):  Every puzzle needs an art piece so I shooped something hope you like it. EDIT: fail. 20 teeth not 21 I'm tired EDIT2: fixed all of these clues are in Bitcoin Mailing List Archive. in this Link you can see a mail from Hal Finney to Satoshi that he mistakingly mentioned the total number of Bitcois 20 milion: Satoshi Nakamoto writes:
> Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash
> system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending.
> It's completely decentralized with no server or central authority.
>
> See bitcoin.org for screenshots.
>
> Download link:
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar
Congratulations to Satoshi on this first alpha release. I am looking
forward to trying it out.
> Total circulation will be 21,000,000 coins. It'll be distributed
> to network nodes when they make blocks, with the amount cut in half
> every 4 years.
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> first 4 years: 10,500,000 coins
> next 4 years: 5,250,000 coins
> next 4 years: 2,625,000 coins
> next 4 years: 1,312,500 coins
> etc...
It's interesting that the system can be configured to only allow a
certain maximum number of coins ever to be generated. I guess the
idea is that the amount of work needed to generate a new coin will
become more difficult as time goes on.
One immediate problem with any new currency is how to value it. Even
ignoring the practical problem that virtually no one will accept it
at first, there is still a difficulty in coming up with a reasonable
argument in favor of a particular non-zero value for the coins.
As an amusing thought experiment, imagine that Bitcoin is successful and
becomes the dominant payment system in use throughout the world. Then the
total value of the currency should be equal to the total value of all
the wealth in the world. Current estimates of total worldwide household
wealth that I have found range from $100 trillion to $300 trillion. With
20 million coins, that gives each coin a value of about $10 million.
So the possibility of generating coins today with a few cents of compute
time may be quite a good bet, with a payoff of something like 100 million
to 1! Even if the odds of Bitcoin succeeding to this degree are slim,
are they really 100 million to one against? Something to think about...
Hal
I think the solution of this puzzle may be in the content of this mail. |
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Isn't an easy puzzle... WhyTheCombOfNatashaOtomoskiHas21Teeth?.txt NatashaOtomoski > Satoshi Nakamoto... 21 > Total bitcoin supply in millions .txt > Satoshi White paper? Teeth >  I think the answer of this puzzle is in the bitcoin white paper... i will try to brute force that. brute forcing is not good way for solving this puzzle. assume the white paper has 100 distinct words, total number of combinations is: 100! / (100-8)! = 7.50306389818e+15 . assume you have a good computer and it can compute 1000 combinations per second, total time of computing will be: 7.50306389818e+12 seconds= 237920 years. I had in mind another kind of brute force. What i did was: a1=(words count in wp.txt)
a=(a1 - 8)
for b in (sequence 1 to $a)
do
take words from $b to $b+8, if the sum is 32 char then save it on a file
done
And what i get was this: OfWorkFormingARecordThatCannotBe
ButProofThatItCameFromTheLargest
CameFromTheLargestPoolOfCPUPower
TheLargestPoolOfCPUPowerAslongAs
PowerAslongAsAMajorityOfCPUPower
OfWorkChainAsProofOfWhatHappened
OnTheInternetHasComeToRelyAlmost
DefineAnElectronicCoinAsAChainOf
AndThePublicKeyOfTheNextOwnerand
OwnerandAddingTheseToTheEndOfThe
OfCourseIsThePayeeCantVerifyThat
ReturnedToTheMintToissueANewCoin
SolutionIsThatTheFateOfTheEntire
GoThroughThemJustLikeABankWeNeed
ForThePayeeToKnowThatThePrevious
ToDoubleSpendTheOnlyWayToConfirm
TheMintBasedModelTheMintWasAware
ASystemForParticipantsToAgreeOnA
ServerWorksByTakingAhashOfABlock
ObviouslyInOrderToGetIntoTheHash
ValueThatWhenHashedSuchAsWithSHA
HashedSuchAsWithSHAThehashBegins
InTheblockUntilAValueIsFoundThat
IsFoundThatGivesTheBlocksHashThe
BlocksAreChainedAfterItTheWorkTo
AreChainedAfterItTheWorkToChange
ChainedAfterItTheWorkToChangeThe
OfWorkIsEssentiallyOneCPUOneVote
ProofOfWorkEffortInvestedinItIfA
IntoABlockEachNodeWorksOnFinding
FindsAProofOfWorkItBroadcastsThe
AProofOfWorkItBroadcastsTheBlock
IfAllTransactionsInItAreValidAnd
OfTheBlockByWorkingOnCreatingThe
BlockInThechainUsingTheHashOfThe
UsingTheHashOfTheAcceptedBlockAs
TheLongestChainToBeTheCorrectOne
LongestChainToBeTheCorrectOneAnd
OfWorkIsFoundAndOneBranchBecomes
NodesTheyWillGetIntoABlockBefore
WillGetIntoABlockBeforeLongBlock
ReceiveABlockItWillRequestItWhen
ItWillRequestItWhenItReceivesThe
OfTheBlockThisAddsAnIncentiveFor
AdditionOfAConstantOfAmountOfNew
OurCaseItIsCPUTimeAndElectricity
HelpEncourageNodesToStayHonestIf
ThanAllTheHonestNodesHeWouldHave
UsingItToGenerateNewCoinsHeOught
ItMoreProfitableToPlayByTheRules
ByTheRulesSuchRulesThatFavourHim
InACoinIsBuriedUnderEnoughBlocks
TreeWithOnlyTheRootIncludedInThe
NeedToBeStoredABlockHeaderWithNo
StorageShouldNotBeAProblemEvenIf
RunningAFullNetworkNodeAUserOnly
NetworkNodeAUserOnlyNeedsToKeepa
HeHasTheLongestChainAndObtainThe
BlockItsTimestampedInHeCantCheck
ForhimselfButByLinkingItToAPlace
ByAnAttackerWhileNetworkNodesCan
AsLongAsTheAttackerCanContinueTo
OneReturningTheChangeIfAnyBackTo
ReturningTheChangeIfAnyBackToThe
ProblemHereThereIsNeverTheNeedTo
HereThereIsNeverTheNeedToExtract
InputsWereOwnedByTheSameOwnerThe
WereOwnedByTheSameOwnerTheRiskis
OwnedByTheSameOwnerTheRiskisThat
SameOwnerTheRiskisThatIfTheOwner
ThemAnAttackerCanOnlyTryToChange
ByOneBlockIncreasingItsleadByAnd
AndTheFailureEventIsTheAttackers
OfAnAttackerCatchingUpFromAGiven
UpFromAGivenDeficitIsAnalogousTo
TrialsToTryToReachBreakevenWeCan
HasToCatchUpWithIncreasesWithThe
TheRecipientBelieveHePaidHimForA
OfBlocksAheadOfTimeByWorkingOnit
IsLuckyEnoughToGetFarEnoughAhead
AndBlocksHaveBeenlinkedAfterItHe
BeenlinkedAfterItHeDoesntKnowThe
ToSolveThisWeproposedAPeerToPeer
NetworkUsingProofOfWorkToRecordA
TheyDoNotNeedToBeIdentifiedSince
TheyWereGoneTheyVoteWithTheirCPU I test those phrases as brainwallets but itdoesn't work  wow! it is a brilliant way to reduce number of combinations  |
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Isn't an easy puzzle... WhyTheCombOfNatashaOtomoskiHas21Teeth?.txt NatashaOtomoski > Satoshi Nakamoto... 21 > Total bitcoin supply in millions .txt > Satoshi White paper? Teeth > I think the answer of this puzzle is in the bitcoin white paper... i will try to brute force that. brute forcing is not good way for solving this puzzle. assume the white paper has 100 distinct words, total number of combinations is: 100! / (100-8)! = 7.50306389818e+15 . assume you have a good computer and it can compute 1000 combinations per second, total time of computing will be: 7.50306389818e+12 seconds= 237920 years. |
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option 1: a brainwallet: we calculate sha256 hash of text. the result is 64 byte hexadecimal number. in fact result of calculation of hsa256 of any text with any length always is a 64 byte hex. then in this option the length of text is not necessary be 32 character.
that is not the only way! there are literary hundreds of methods to use for brainwallet because there is no standard for it. for example you can perform multiple rounds of SHA256 on it. or this "password" you use can be the password of a PBKD2 with some iteration count and then derive a 32 byte result from it. yes, that isn't the only way, but all brinwallets use hashing to generate private key, some of them use it one time and some of them use it many time. I think the answer of puzzle is the private key straightforwardly, we don't need these indirect ways. |
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to doing that I've written a python script for myself. you can download it from this link. for running it you need Python 3.6 or newer and "blocksmith" module for Python. after installing Python open Command Pormpt and write: in next step you need a word list file. the structure of your file should be like this: each word in a new line. this script needs 8 copy of your word list file. copy your word list file eight times and past them into the scripts folder and rename them to "list1.txt", "list2.txt","list3.txt",..."list8.txt". then run the script. if you are a Windows user you can open it with IDLE (a simple python editor that installs with python) and press F5 button for run. it generates all combinations of 8 words and if the length of a combination be 32 character it generates its public key and if that public key be equal to this puzzle public key it shows a message that found right words. Generating public addresses to check this way seems too slow. Like 5 per second (if you feed it only 32 char-rs long strings instead of going though all of them) It generates public key just for 32 character strings, all other strings are omitted. I tested it on win 7 and ubuntu, on ubuntu it has better performance .Its slowness is for slowness of python language. |
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Another 230 million passwords tried using the brainflayer tool, using the tool really don't take up too much time, compiling the wordlists is another matter, haha...   I think you are in the wrong way. the answer of this puzzle in not a brainwallet. let me explain: each 64 byte hexadecimal number can be a bitcoin private key. for generating a bitcoin private key from a 32 character plain text we have 2 options: option 1: a brainwallet: we calculate sha256 hash of text. the result is 64 byte hexadecimal number. in fact result of calculation of hsa256 of any text with any length always is a 64 byte hex. then in this option the length of text is not necessary be 32 character. option 2: we convert each letter to its ascii code. the result of converting each English letter to its ascii code is a 2 byte hexadecimal number. then converting a 32 character text to its ascii code is a 64 byte hexadecimal number. according to the OP post I think the option 2 is the right way. This is actually a pretty good explanation, i can see what you mean - and i think you are right, that being said, it's until now been pretty interesting and learning for me to dig into this puzzle. Is there a way to automate the process of testing larger "option 2" possibilities? to doing that I've written a python script for myself. you can download it from this link. for running it you need Python 3.6 or newer and "blocksmith" module for Python. after installing Python open Command Pormpt and write: in next step you need a word list file. the structure of your file should be like this: each word in a new line. this script needs 8 copy of your word list file. copy your word list file eight times and past them into the scripts folder and rename them to "list1.txt", "list2.txt","list3.txt",..."list8.txt". then run the script. if you are a Windows user you can open it with IDLE (a simple python editor that installs with python) and press F5 button for run. it generates all combinations of 8 words and if the length of a combination be 32 character it generates its public key and if that public key be equal to this puzzle public key it shows a message that found right words. |
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Another 230 million passwords tried using the brainflayer tool, using the tool really don't take up too much time, compiling the wordlists is another matter, haha... I think you are in the wrong way. the answer of this puzzle in not a brainwallet. let me explain: each 64 byte hexadecimal number can be a bitcoin private key. for generating a bitcoin private key from a 32 character plain text we have 2 options: option 1: a brainwallet: we calculate sha256 hash of text. the result is 64 byte hexadecimal number. in fact result of calculation of hsa256 of any text with any length always is a 64 byte hex. then in this option the length of text is not necessary be 32 character. option 2: we convert each letter to its ascii code. the result of converting each English letter to its ascii code is a 2 byte hexadecimal number. then converting a 32 character text to its ascii code is a 64 byte hexadecimal number. according to the OP post I think the option 2 is the right way. I believe it is option 2 as well. (Except I believe you meant 32 bytes, not 64. A private key is 256 bits which is 32 bytes, or 64 characters in the range 0-9 or A-F in hexadecimal.) It could also be sha256 of a .txt which could be formated in unicode/bigendian or utf8 (edit, but then the puzzle is not correct by saying the 32 characters string is the private key). yes, you are right. a private key is 32 byte and 64 hexadecimal digit. |
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Another 230 million passwords tried using the brainflayer tool, using the tool really don't take up too much time, compiling the wordlists is another matter, haha... I think you are in the wrong way. the answer of this puzzle in not a brainwallet. let me explain: each 64 byte hexadecimal number can be a bitcoin private key. for generating a bitcoin private key from a 32 character plain text we have 2 options: option 1: a brainwallet: we calculate sha256 hash of text. the result is 64 byte hexadecimal number. in fact result of calculation of hsa256 of any text with any length always is a 64 byte hex. then in this option the length of text is not necessary be 32 character. option 2: we convert each letter to its ascii code. the result of converting each English letter to its ascii code is a 2 byte hexadecimal number. then converting a 32 character text to its ascii code is a 64 byte hexadecimal number. according to the OP post I think the option 2 is the right way. |
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I googled this words: and found some books and articles about bitcoin. In tow of them mentioned that the reason of why total number of bitcoins is 21 million(finit) is because Satoshi wants Bitcoin mimic supply of gold in blockchain system. |
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Some of my guesses that did not work:
NatashaIsBlindWomenAndDidNotKnow
SatoshiLostAllHisTeethInHisMouth
NatashaLostAllHerTeethInHerMouth
TheAnswerToTheQuestionIsABitcoin
BecauseHerMouthIsLocatedOnHerTop
ASingleToothHoldsAOneMillionKeys
ItsOneToothForEveryOneMillionKey
ItHasOneToothForEveryMillionKeys
I give up for today. Will try again tomorrow.
good job(thumbs up emoji), but I think there should be a logical relationship between a puzzle and its solution. In my opinion it is foolish if someone say: "I m thinking about 8 random words, guess them if you can!". who can guess 8 random words?! |
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sorry to ask again, I need some help here....  How are you guys testing the "potential" private key solution? Are you using for example Electrum and "sweep private keys" to the corresponding Wallet: 179sxfh6rw6bHSo5wVUhLP96k46QaEzVP ? or doing all the steps: private key -> public key; public key -> address and see if match with the address above? thank you go to this link and enter your 32 character answer into upper text area, it will show you 64 character hexadecimal equal to your text. copy the hexadecimal and go to this link , click on "wallet details" button and paste 64 character hexadecimal into the text area, and click on "View Details" button. it will shows you a public address. if your answer be correct then that public address should be equal to this puzzle public address. |
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I think it is good idea to announce our activities here. this saves our time.
that sounds greedy as fuck, we all know you wont post any useful info and try to use our useful info to crack the code but I shared all things I know.in fact I am the only person that shares good info till now. read my previous replies. |
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no one attention to that ".txt" at end of question, but I think that is a part of puzzle.
actually that is the first thing that i did! i just never posted anything about it here. i tried searching the internet and the file sharing platforms using the keywords in the text, the hash of the text using different hash algorithms but none of them led to any results. Obviously she isn't him, but
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who do you all think is she anyways?
I hashed hex number of my answer with this algorithm, but it doesn't work. I Tried reversing and it does not work neither. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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S A T O S H I N A K A M O T OWe need Nicolas Cage for this. I Summon thee! I think it is good idea to announce our activities here. this saves our time. |
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Obviously she isn't him, but
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who do you all think is she anyways?
I hashed hex number of my answer with this algorithm, but it doesn't work. |
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My guess,
So based on this thread, Natasha Otomoski probably Satoshi Nakamoto, number 21 probably max supply of btc, based on coinmarketcap max btc supply is 21,000,000 which is have 21 too.
It is possible to turn the question into "Why Satoshi Nakamoto Create bitcoin with 21 million supply?", Its pretty similar tho, "Why The Comb Of Natasha Otomoski Has 21 Teeth?" , but idk, just guessing.
according to this reply I think answer should be in the Bitcoin Whitepaper or in Bitcoin source code. 1. I was searched the Whitepaper but couldn't find any clue, just a link to a ".txt" file in last page: http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt. I downloaded it and calculated its sha256 checksum (as private key) but it wasn't the correct answer. 2. therefore I was download the first version (0.1) of bitcoin source code that writhed by Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi sets total number of bitcoins to 21 million at line 680 of "main.cpp" file mathematically. above this line there is a comment writted by satoshi: "Subsidy is cut in half every 4 years" link: https://github.com/Maguines/Bitcoin-v0.1/blob/master/bitcoin0.1/src/main.cpp. if the question be about total number of bitcoins this comment is the answer. if we convert "4" to "four" the result has 32 character and 8 words! I was tested some different shapes of this comment but unfortunately couldn't find the correct answer.( a 32 character text could converted to 64 byte hex number that could be a private key) . sorry for my bad English and if you find the answer according to my reply please donate me. I live in poverty and need money so much. my bitcoin address: 112YeJTFugsuVswVDPzdQi2NTzBunhfVaS interesting but i tried all combine (8!) doesnt work good job maybe it isn't the solution at all. or maybe it is just a part of solution and there be another parts. no one attention to that ".txt" at end of question, but I think that is a part of puzzle. |
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Satoshi sets total number of bitcoins to 21 million at line 680 of "main.cpp" file mathematically. above this line there is a comment writted by satoshi: "Subsidy is cut in half every 4 years" link: https://github.com/Maguines/Bitcoin-v0.1/blob/master/bitcoin0.1/src/main.cpp. if the question be about total number of bitcoins this comment is the answer. if we convert "4" to "four" the result has 32 character and 8 words! you mistunderstood the whole thing here! most probably because you Ctrl+F searched the number "21" and found that line. which is not even 21 million but 210 thousand. that line which you posted is not the 21 million limit although it is somewhat related. what is happening there is that every 210000 (210k) blocks we cut the block reward by half. an event known as Halvening these days! and 4 years is the result of time between blocks thanks to difficulty (210000 ~= 4 * 365 * 24 * 6 block/h) AFAIK nowhere in the source code there is any constant set for maximum number of bitcoins. it just happens to be that much because of the way all these other things are calculated (block reward, block reward halving,...) No! I don't misunderstood. I did not say that number is 21 million. if you read my replay carefully, I said satoshi calculated total number of bitcoins MATHEMATICALLY. in fact the total number of bitcoins is not in source code as a constant number. number of bitcoins was generated in first block is 50, this act repeats every 10 minute. that line of code halve the generated bitcoins every 4 years, this means number of generated bitcoins some day will be 0. it will takes 140 years to number of generated bitcoins become 0. if we sum all generated bitcoins in 140 years this number becomes about 21 million. if this HALVING does not take place the number of generated bitcoins will be infinite. |
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according to this reply I think answer should be in the Bitcoin Whitepaper or in Bitcoin source code. 1. I was searched the Whitepaper but couldn't find any clue, just a link to a ".txt" file in last page: http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt. I downloaded it and calculated its sha256 checksum (as private key) but it wasn't the correct answer. 2. therefore I was download the first version (0.1) of bitcoin source code that writhed by Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi sets total number of bitcoins to 21 million at line 680 of "main.cpp" file mathematically. above this line there is a comment writted by satoshi: "Subsidy is cut in half every 4 years" link: https://github.com/Maguines/Bitcoin-v0.1/blob/master/bitcoin0.1/src/main.cpp. if the question be about total number of bitcoins this comment is the answer. if we convert "4" to "four" the result has 32 character and 8 words! I was tested some different shapes of this comment but unfortunately couldn't find the correct answer.( a 32 character text could converted to 64 byte hex number that could be a private key) . sorry for my bad English and if you find the answer according to my reply please donate me. I live in poverty and need money so much. my bitcoin address: 112YeJTFugsuVswVDPzdQi2NTzBunhfVaS Very interesting(though it doesn't answer the question "why?"). If I manage to crack it(which is highly unlikely), I will share it with all those who actively participated. I don't Know. the CamelCase of comment is "SubsidyIsCutInHalfEveryFourYears" or "subsidyIsCutInHalfEveryFourYears", I was converted them to 64 byte hex number and calculated the public address they generate. the public addresses they generate doesn't match to public address of this puzzle. |
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My guess,
So based on this thread, Natasha Otomoski probably Satoshi Nakamoto, number 21 probably max supply of btc, based on coinmarketcap max btc supply is 21,000,000 which is have 21 too.
It is possible to turn the question into "Why Satoshi Nakamoto Create bitcoin with 21 million supply?", Its pretty similar tho, "Why The Comb Of Natasha Otomoski Has 21 Teeth?" , but idk, just guessing.
according to this reply I think answer should be in the Bitcoin Whitepaper or in Bitcoin source code. 1. I was searched the Whitepaper but couldn't find any clue, just a link to a ".txt" file in last page: http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt. I downloaded it and calculated its sha256 checksum (as private key) but it wasn't the correct answer. 2. therefore I was download the first version (0.1) of bitcoin source code that writhed by Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi sets total number of bitcoins to 21 million at line 680 of "main.cpp" file mathematically. above this line there is a comment writted by satoshi: "Subsidy is cut in half every 4 years" link: https://github.com/Maguines/Bitcoin-v0.1/blob/master/bitcoin0.1/src/main.cpp. if the question be about total number of bitcoins this comment is the answer. if we convert "4" to "four" the result has 32 character and 8 words! I was tested some different shapes of this comment but unfortunately couldn't find the correct answer.( a 32 character text could converted to 64 byte hex number that could be a private key) . sorry for my bad English and if you find the answer according to my reply please donate me. I live in poverty and need money so much. my bitcoin address: 112YeJTFugsuVswVDPzdQi2NTzBunhfVaS |
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