Topic: Is blockexplorer's total bitcoins in existance accurate? - page 3. (Read 3206 times)
Yes, it's the total number of bitcoins generated; not the number if bitcoins "available".
The reason I ask is that it is a nice round number, but there are at least 20 nanobitcoin which have been literally "destroyed", or removed from existance forever. http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000004c78956f8643262f3622acf22486b120421f893c0553702ba7b5 gives an example of this. So unless an entire 0.99999998 have also been destroyed (which is unlikely), am I correct in assuming that this number is an upper limit to the amount of bitcoins in existance and not an exact amount?
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