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January 19, 2018, 05:08:29 PM |
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The hard-coded limit stops them from doing so. Also, if they want to create their own version of bitcoin with more than 21m mineable coins, then they need to fork off from the main chain and start from there, see whether someone would support their idea. 21m coins isn't even sure to be exhausted by 2140 by PoW because by then, if we still sticked to the same algorithm, difficulty would be extremely high and the amount of energy needed to mine a single bitcoin is too high as well.
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