Noob question about creating a coin and keeping a few coins for myself

[jonathonsolomon]

Hello, I am not sure if this is the best place for this question...

I created a Litecoin fork...Jewfrocoin. I have a Max Money value of 10,000,000,000. I started 2 nodes using virtual machines and was able to start mining but is there an easier way for the coin creator (me) to get a few million coins to pass out to friends and family?

Thanks in Advance.

[achow101]

First of all, MAX_MONEY is not what controls the total money supply; that is governed by the block reward halvings which is in the function GetBlockSubsidy.


You can just create your genesis block to have a large amount of coins and then make sure that you insert that transaction into the UTXO set when the genesis block is loaded.

[jonathonsolomon]

Thanks, any recommended resources to dive deep into the subject of creating coins? Google seems to be hit or miss with info on the subject.

[lero34]

Do not create your own coin. Also, do not invest in several coins. This is a bad strategy. Choose one coin and invest in it. Read the opinions of experts. I personally recommend the ethereum.