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imnuso | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Issuance inflates the supply, genius. But okay everyone including satoshi is wrong and you’re right. Lol
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BitcoinStu | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The supply is 21 million.  Issuance increases the circulating supply and moves it toward the total supply.

Satoshi was not wrong, he was imprecise.
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BitcoinStu | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 And if you want to be even more precise and correct, there is no such thing as a bitcoin, that's just slang for 100 million satoshis, or bitcoin units.

The total supply is 2,099,999,997,690,000 units.
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imnuso | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You mean I don’t have to stack whole coins? 🤯
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BitcoinStu | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yes, there is no such thing, at least in terms of the actual code and protocol, as a whole coin.  There are no decimal places in the bitcoin protocol it's just integers.

You can stack as many units as you want.  What is colloquially referred to as a "whole bitcoin" is simply 100 million units... which themselves are colloquially referred to as Satoshi.
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imnuso | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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