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Chad Lupkes · 35w
What you're saying is a complete misunderstanding of the supply. When miners solidify a block and get a block reward, they are NOT creating new coins. They are releasing coins from the locked supply...
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You could say that about anything. Everything has a total number that will ever exist, even raindrops, it's just a question of whether we know what the total is or not.

In fact I'm looking at a number of raindrops that just got "released from the total supply" outside my window right now.

And as you point out a hard fork could change Bitcoin so we don't even REALLY know the total number there either. Nobody has a time machine.
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Chad Lupkes · 35w
that's like complaining about how little matter there is on the Earth when Jupiter and Sol have so much more. Or how little energy Earth gets from Sol because we only get 4.534 X 10^-10 of the total radiation emitted, and even then half of that is reflected by the atmosphere or deflected by the mag...