This is off by at least three orders of magnitude.
1BTC = 10M satoshi.
2012 US Penny Production = ~6B
6bn/10M = 600
Total number of us pennies made in the last 10 years tops 43B which pushes the difference from 600x to 4300x
1BTC = 10M satoshi.
2012 US Penny Production = ~6B
6bn/10M = 600
Total number of us pennies made in the last 10 years tops 43B which pushes the difference from 600x to 4300x
Shish2k's point stands, only with "430 BTC is as many satoshis as there are US pennies".
But this is irrelevant anyway. If 1 satoshi ever becomes too coarse-grained, the whole Bitcoin community would obviously agree to revise the protocol to further subdivide satoshis...
The important part of that is "currently possible". The protocol allows for us to divide down as far as we want. All we need is a software update.
Even if there were an upper limit of 21 trillion bitcoins, people would still be worring about them being lost, even though it makes no difference.