Interesting thought experiment:
The whole Bitcoin network agrees that there should never be more than 21 million Bitcoin.
Then there is a bug in the code, so that there are 22 million Bitcoin now.
What would happen? Would we just live with 22 million coins or agree to a hard fork that fixes the issue and makes the extra 1 million coins unspendable/deletes them?
elhodler / El Hodler 🌋
npub12l…20p2v
2023-03-01 09:54:05
in reply to nevent1q…7t2y
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npub12llxaqtcer9r98rrqap2eg2znrguqn482u2s6snwtz96dphgzpxqx20p2vPublished at
2023-03-01 09:54:05Event JSON
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