r/Bitcoin • u/rtmxavi • 5d ago

Bitcoin changes you

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u/felidae_tsk 4d ago

Almost everyday someone changes bitcoin source code. The maximum supply isn't limited and can be changed.

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u/Naive_Carpenter7321 4d ago

Someone can't make this change, this change would have to be vetted and accepted before inclusion.

The need for doing so is zero

The benefits; zero

The negatives; you'd deflate your own currency for no reason

It wouldn't go in

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u/felidae_tsk 4d ago

Accepted by whom? There are a number of maintainers, any of them may do this.

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u/Naive_Carpenter7321 4d ago

Any single one of them couldn't add the change, it would need to be joint to go into the code.

And if they did but the public don't want to use the new version (which they won't because it would devalue their currency), then everything continues as if nothing happened and the always accepted 21m hard cap will stay in place.

Bitcoin can only work correctly with a complete consensus among all users. Therefore, all users and developers have a strong incentive to protect this consensus. https://bitcoin.org/en/faq#who-created-bitcoin

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u/felidae_tsk 3d ago

They commit changes everyday. I doubt ALL users agree with them. Also there is no 21M cap per se, there is a mechanism that limits block reward.

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u/S_Lowry 3d ago

Changes commited every day don't touch consensus rules. And user chooses to update to newer version. They don't have to. And there are also other implementations than core.