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Topic: Bug in Bitcoin Discovered by PMC Community - Altcoins Affected As Well - page 2. (Read 2678 times)

newbie
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Well, i think every coin can never be mined because the reward halves every 4 year.
Check this out: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply#Projected_Bitcoins_Long_Term
It states that new coins can be mined even in the year 2140.

Johanakerblom, when the block reward is 1 satoshi and it is halved, it will go to 0 satoshis. No more bitcoins will be created at that point.

I belive Satoshish are divisable.

I read this:

"The current level selected in the code (by Satoshi) is 8 decimal places (1 satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC) hence the nickname for the smallest unit currently possible for bitcoin today.

As a thought exercise, if a consensus of the network (miners, but also clients and server applications for compatibility reasons) decides to update to a version of the protocol that includes 16 decimal places inspired by your post, we could end up with a new base unit (1 satoshi = 100,000,000 gracchi) as well as nanobitcoins (nBTC), picobitcoins (pBTC), and even femtobitcoins (fBTC, 10 gracchi)"

Here:

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/19661/how-is-bitcoin-infinitely-divisible
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Well, i think every coin can never be mined because the reward halves every 4 year.

Check this out: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply#Projected_Bitcoins_Long_Term

It states that new coins can be mined even in the year 2140.
If I'm understanding this correctly, the problem is that after a specific block, this will happen. So it's not when the reward is 0, It's when it's sufficiently close to 0.

This was the direct quote from my talk w/ the Premine DEV:

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So the reward will be resetted (sic) at block 13440000, when the number of the block divided by 210000 will be 64
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Well, i think every coin can never be mined because the reward halves every 4 year.

Check this out: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply#Projected_Bitcoins_Long_Term

It states that new coins can be mined even in the year 2140.
If I'm understanding this correctly, the problem is that after a specific block, this will happen. So it's not when the reward is 0, It's when it's sufficiently close to 0.
legendary
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Well, i think every coin can never be mined because the reward halves every 4 year.
Check this out: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply#Projected_Bitcoins_Long_Term
It states that new coins can be mined even in the year 2140.

Johanakerblom, when the block reward is 1 satoshi and it is halved, it will go to 0 satoshis. No more bitcoins will be created at that point.
hero member
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This is a great find by the Premine community. Hopefully the word will get to Bitcoin developers so they can address the issue.

Because PMC is essentially how Bitcoin will look in the future, it's an excellent way to spot these issues down the road for Bitcoin.
newbie
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Well, i think every coin can never be mined because the reward halves every 4 year.

Check this out: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply#Projected_Bitcoins_Long_Term

It states that new coins can be mined even in the year 2140.
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Full Disclosure:  The blog is my own, so I'll link at the very bottom and put the TL/DR here:

Essentially there's a bug in Bitcoin that, after all coins are mined, will reset the block rewards to their original state at the beginning.  I was told this will occur at or around block 13,440,000.

I'm not a developer & I didn't find this bug; I'm just writing up on it so people can see and fix it. Smiley  Anyway, feel free to discuss - or just talk trash about me - below.  I know I have a lot of work to do on the blog itself, lol

http://www.ryblog.com/index.php?/archives/7-Did-PMC-Save-Bitcoin-Users-Billions.html
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