| No amount larger than this (in satoshi)
| is valid.
|
| ———–
| @note
|
| this constant is not the total money
| supply, which in Bitcoin currently
| happens to be less than 21,000,000 BTC
| for various reasons, but rather a sanity
| check. As this sanity check is used by
| consensus-critical validation code,
| the exact value of the MAX_MONEY constant
| is consensus critical; in unusual circumstances
| like a(nother) overflow bug that allowed
| for the creation of coins out of thin
| air modification could lead to a fork.
|