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> And yet no one has broken bitcoin encryption and there will only ever be 21 million bitcoins

What if the chain by consensus agrees there can be 210 million bitcoins?

about as likely as someone breaking the secp256k1 elliptic curve algo.

Bitcoin will need to add tail emission due to the security budget issues as block rewards go down and there isn’t enough transaction fees to support miners

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