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0 pointsufo12y ago0 comments

btw, why is the transaction ammount a real number in there? Wouldn't it be clearer to use an integer multiple of whatever the lowest denomination of bitcoins would be?

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waterlesscloud12y ago· 1 in thread

I was looking into that, but got sidetracked and found this comment from the ref client's lead dev...

sendtoaddress didn't always return a transaction id. It was changed to do that to facilitate bookkeeping. Sort of ironic.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=807.0

patio1112y ago

To be fair, he made that addition before anyone, including probably Satoshi Nakamoto, knew that the Bitcoin "protocol" allowed transaction IDs to change at will for up to ~1 hour after them being sent.

google-serf12y ago

This is exactly how the transaction balance is encoded, as integer multiples of satoshi's (the basic unit of bitcoin, 0.00000001 BTC. All known cryptocurrencies do this to prevent float/double rounding errors.

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