Why the maximum supply of dash is 18.9 million?

[Andris Penafiel Schmitz]

Why did the dash creator choose that number?

 

[tungfa]

it was 21 Mill based on BTC

 

[Michael78]

Less is sometimes more

 

[Aniinl]

I would actually like to know this, too. I get a limited supply makes sense, but why 18 Million (or 21 Million for BTC)? Why not 100 million, or 21 billion? Is there a reason for this specific number?

 

[Haroon Memon]

Less is sometimes more

Well said

 

[Haroon Memon]

I would actually like to know this, too. I get a limited supply makes sense, but why 18 Million (or 21 Million for BTC)? Why not 100 million, or 21 billion? Is there a reason for this specific number?

The value would diminish

 

[Haroon Memon]

Why did the dash creator choose that number?

Who cares just buy them pal

 

[jimbursch]

With regard to Dash, I don't know the answer, but here is an answer re: Bitcoin:

Speculated justifications for the unintuitive value "21 million" are that it matches a 4-year reward halving schedule; or the ultimate total number of Satoshis that will be mined is close to the maximum capacity of a 64-bit floating point number. Satoshi has never really justified or explained many of these constants.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply

Dash's limit is probably similarly arbitrary.

 

[CryptoEdge]

These limits are somewhat arbitrary, what matters is the rate of issuance (inflation rate) in relation to the limited supply. The fact that it's so divisible makes the 'whole numbers' irrelevant in the grand scheme. There are enough 'units' to go around.
That said... you'll want to own more 'whole numbers'

 

[Aniinl]

Thank you, @jimbursch and @CryptoEdge!
I'm working on my whole numbers, LOL! I'm happy with my Dash numbers (though one can never have enough... ) but with Bitcoin I'm trying to get back to "1"