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On Wednesday 13 July 2011 19:37:57 Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:04:09 AM Andy Parkins wrote:
> > 	TCoinsElement MAX_MONEY;
> 
> This isn't an arbitrary constant, it's the result of a calculation...

Don't tell me:

bitcoin/src/main.h:41
static const int64 MAX_MONEY = 21000000 * COIN

21,000,000 seems pretty arbitrary to me.


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