#Ether supply

Community Reacts to Vitalik’s April Fools Prank: Fixed Supply EIP (EIP 960) Rejected

April 21, 2018 by Nuno Menezes at Altcoins, Blockchain, Commentary, Ethereum, Finance, News

Vitalik Buterin has sent out an April fools prank this year that left the community with some concerns. While his prank consisted of a new fixed supply proposal for Ethereum, called Fixed Supply EIP 960, he later tweeted that whether it was a joke or not, he argued if the...

Ethereum Founder Proposes Hard Cap on ETH Supply

April 2, 2018 by contributor at Commentary, Ethereum, Finance, News, Tech

m, EtIn a post authored on GitHub, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin proposed a fixed supply cap on the total number of ether (ETH). Called the Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP), developers and software users were also asked their opinions about this proposal, which would cap Ether’s supply at 120,204,432. Hard Cap...