Crypto Newbie: Why are There So Many Bitcoins?
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When the hard fork happens, the number of coins a user possesses doubles as the new blockchain is almost an exact copy of the twin it originated from (except for the new features) and has all the previous data recorded before the fork. Bitcoin Cash has a finite supply of 21 million coins.
The new coin received the name Bitcoin Gold and was aimed at further decentralization of blockchain. In the previous two forks, all users got the same amount of coins they had on the original blockchain at the moment of fork.
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