Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained

by Yan Pritzker

If Bitcoin succeeds, it may prove to be as important as the printing press (decentralized production of information), the Internet (decentralized content and communication), and three-branch democracy (decentralized government).

There will only ever be 21 million bitcoins, though each bitcoin can be divided into 100 million units now called satoshis, producing a final total of 2.1 quadrillion satoshis in circulation around the year 2140.