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35 sats \ 0 replies \ @relc 3 Oct 2021 \ on: Ask SN: What are some of the few actually technical weaknesses of bitcoin? bitcoin
Thank you for this question! I am glad you ask.
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Without HardFork Block 5101541 will be the last Block in Bitcoin. Source: https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1259990906997858304
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Without SoftFork "Bitcoin's money supply to grow indefinitely, forever." "carefully written to rely on undefined behaviour in the C++ specification" Source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0042
I do not want to spread FUD but we will all be dead by then ;(
Sidenote because of these lines of code i started coding:
int64_t nSubsidy = 50 * COIN;
// Subsidy is cut in half every 210,000 blocks
// which will occur approximately every 4 years.
nSubsidy >>= (nHeight / 210000);
- just beautiful
Thank this guy!
https://web.archive.org/web/20161111112128/pieterwuillefacts.com/