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+// Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
+// Copyright (c) 2009-2018 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#ifndef BITCOIN_CONSENSUS_AMOUNT_H
+#define BITCOIN_CONSENSUS_AMOUNT_H
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+/** Amount in satoshis (Can be negative) */
+typedef int64_t CAmount;
+
+static const CAmount COIN = 100000000;
+
+/** No amount larger than this (in satoshi) is valid.
+ *
+ * Note that this constant is *not* the total money supply, which in Bitcoin
+ * currently happens to be less than 21,000,000 BTC for various reasons, but
+ * rather a sanity check. As this sanity check is used by consensus-critical
+ * validation code, the exact value of the MAX_MONEY constant is consensus
+ * critical; in unusual circumstances like a(nother) overflow bug that allowed
+ * for the creation of coins out of thin air modification could lead to a fork.
+ * */
+static const CAmount MAX_MONEY = 21000000 * COIN;
+inline bool MoneyRange(const CAmount& nValue) { return (nValue >= 0 && nValue <= MAX_MONEY); }
+
+#endif // BITCOIN_CONSENSUS_AMOUNT_H