BIP-42: A finite monetary supply for Bitcoin

Thursday, June 20, 2019

I’ve talked about BIP-42 at the 2019 Chaincode Labs Summer Residency seminar. With BIP-42 a fix for a bug in the block subsidy calculation of Bitcoin Core is described. This BIP is meant as an april-fools joke and will only become relevant in 2262.

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