42 Coin Hits 48 Coins
Months ago, Woodcoin founder "Funkenstein the Dwarf" noticed something was awry with the 42 Coin project. When reviewing the code, he saw that there was nothing, actually, stopping the coin supply from exceeding the apparently magic number of 42. He wrote about it, saying: The function "getBlockValue" determines the coinbase reward and hence the money supply. What I saw surprised me: the reward was set to be 0.00042 per block, forever. In other words, no limited supply. No cap at 42! The next thing to do, for anyone who can read and write code, is to create a patch and submit it, right?....
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