I’ve been questioning if it could be potential to change Bitcoin to additional break up sats in order that emission might theoretically proceed asymptotically past 2140. I’m not an skilled coder (at present studying) so have not tried to learn and perceive Bitcoin code but, however I perceive that 64-bit reminiscence is enough to retailer any potential steadiness of what is going to finally be 2.1 quadrillion sats, with good accuracy and with 1 bit buffer. With only one little bit of buffer, if sats had been additional divided into micro or nano sats and past, it wouldn’t be potential for 64-bit machines to accommodate all potential balances all the way down to the smallest denomination with out potential rounding errors. Nevertheless, by the flip of the following century, I think about 128-bit and even 256-bit machines will probably be normal (or qubit machines), so in that case wouldn’t it be potential to additional subdivide sats into microsats/ nanosats to permit emission to proceed in concept ceaselessly, guaranteeing block rewards for miners? It appears extra elegant and dynamic to have a goal that’s perpetually approached however by no means reached.
Additionally, if world M2 cash provide is, say $100T, that is 10 quadrillion cents, which implies that if Bitcoin’s 2.1 quadrillion sats fully changed all of the world’s cash every sat can be price almost 5 cents, making Bitcoin much less divisible than {dollars}. Combining this with the notion that in a real market economic system, the price of items and companies ought to cut back over time because of innovation (admittedly offset by shortage of sources), we might attain some extent the place Bitcoin is insufficiently divisible to pay for the bottom priced items and companies obtainable, much like how items of gold had been impracticably small to handle within the cost of low-cost objects.
I suppose additional divisibility might be carried out on Layer 2 similar to Lightning, however channel balances would nonetheless have to be settled on-chain to the closest sat.