There will only ever be 2,099,999,997,690,000 #satoshis
Otherwise written as 20,999,999.9769 $BTC, thus the true number is actually not quite 21 million.
Why? Because the #bitcoin code uses fixed-point arithmetic for binary division.
Just a fun little fact for ya.
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#btc #2099999997690000
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