How many Ethers will ever exist?

Anatolio

Sorry if this info is available in the FAQ, but I can't find it.

How many ethers will ever exist in the future?

Anatolio

Ah, calculated it based on the whitepaper. It's 97M.

Jasper

Thats wrong. Assuming some level of loss, there is a maximum held. Otherwise, 0.26X per year with X the number of ethers sold in the presale. (edited.. somehow it didnt get written there..)

StephanTual

There is no maximum. 60,102,216 ethers were created during the sale, plus 2x pools of 9.9% each. 26% of 60,102,216 will be created through mining every year. This means that 15,626,576 will be created every year on top of the 60m and the two pools.

After a while, 15,626,576 ether won't represent much of the total ether available, making the system dis-inflationary (i.e., inflation perpetually trending towards 0 but never reaching it).

Anatolio

Interesting, thanks!