According to Phil, 42M was chosen by him due to him liking Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He then constructed issuance schedule so that with an initial block reward of 100 coins, max supply would end up being 42M. The others tweaked it to 50 coins.
What the chain says
- Block
- 677 199
- Time
- 2021-03-06T06:37:54Z
- Signer
- 1AjUnNeTbLY5rkmyGXMjBhZwfjjp9jKqin
- App
- twetch
- Type
- post
- Content type
- text/plain
- Name in tx
- twetch#24100
Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.
Signed by
1AjUnNeTbLY5rkmyGXMjBhZwfjjp9jKqin Verified