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sidko
8y ago
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Bitcoin is NOT infinitely divisible. Each Bitcoin is divisible into 10^8. There were reasons to choose this number and isn't arbitrary [1].
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https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/31933/why-is-bit...
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wwwtyro
8y ago
It is arbitrarily divisible. Fitting inside 64 bits is convenient, but hardly an insurmountable engineering challenge. There's libraries that handle this sort of thing with ease.
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