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What happens when 8 decimal places is not enough and bitcoin moves to 16? Will the definition of Bitcoin be moved again and again?
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Big Bad John 8mo ago

That is one purpose of the BIP, to force people to learn that Bitcoin is not actually divisible and we cannot add more decimals places because it uses whole integers.

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CanopyKev 8mo ago

Its currently hardcodes to simulate 8 decimal places using integers. Wouldnt be hard to increase that to 11 or 16.

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Big Bad John 8mo ago

What is "hardcoded" is a limit of 2.1 quadrillion base units.

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Guy Swann 8mo ago

I actually disagree because there is no actual decimal place. It’s just an integer. Which means making more granularity in a soft fork is actually a lot messier than it seems.