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lsparrish comments on Making money with Bitcoin? - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Clippy 16 February 2011 07:17PM

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Comment author: lsparrish 02 March 2011 04:23:36AM 1 point [-]

Right they won't run out of coins, but the number of coins is still not going to go above 21 million. Rather they'll generate smaller and smaller fractions of coins. Compensation will primarily come from transaction fees.