"“I think there’s a good chance that … when we get to that 21 million Bitcoins, [Satoshi Nakamato] is going to come on there, laugh hysterically, go quiet, and all Bitcoin is going to be erased.”
Satoshi no longer has access to being a core dev, and it's written in to the blockchain that 21 million is the supply cap. I hate this man with a passion, and trust me I know hate is a very strong word.
No single developer can change the protocol of a decentralized project and network. Jamie Dimon must understand this point and maybe he understood it but just wanted to say lies on media.
How is the 21 Million Bitcoin Cap Defined and Enforced?It is hard coded and no developer can change the 21 milion Bitcoin cap and erase Bitcoin is much more than increasing total supply so it is impossible.
5 lines of codeto prove Jamie Dimon is a liar.
its actually better to show a raw blockreward value in bytes
starting from
100101010000001011111001000000000 = 50
10010101000000101111100100000000 = 25
1001010100000010111110010000000 = 12.5
100101010000001011111001000000 = 6.25
notice anything..
yep halving the reward is simply removing the final bit every 210,000 blocks
i personally dont like the method core displays it via the 50*coin /2 as it ends up with a rounding error later on after a few halvings
edit
philipma1957 response below is pretty much the best display of how J.Dimon makes not sense about even the most simplest detail that j.dimon did not think about
"I think there’s a good chance that …
when we get to that 21 million Bitcoins, [Satoshi Nakamato] is going to come on there, laugh hysterically, go quiet, and all Bitcoin is going to be erased."