Anyone can crack the code. Just modify the block interval or the block rewards and you'll be able to increase the max supply. Problem is, due to your different block intervals (and as a result of the difficulty) and/or your different block rewards, you'll either reject the blocks generated by the network sooner or later. Effectively, you're forking Bitcoin. As a result, you're running a different Bitcoin with different rules that no one follow excepts you.
If you persuade everyone to follow your fork and replace the current Bitcoin, the effectively max cap would be raised. If no one wants to follow, nothing happens for everyone else.
Topic: Can Bitcoin Supply Be Manipulated? - page 4. (Read 665 times)
So there are 21 million total because that is how it was coded. Will it be possible to increase the supply or even make it infinite if someone was able to crack the code?
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