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That's a wise choice, my friend. By viewing the Bitcoin price in SATS per USD, you can better understand how Bitcoin's value stacks up against other currencies and assets around the world.

Since Bitcoin is divisible down to 8 decimal places, using SATS as a measurement allows us to accurately track even the smallest fluctuations in Bitcoin's value without losing accuracy due to rounding errors or shifting decimals.

Furthermore, because SATS represents such a small fraction of one full Bitcoin unit (BTC), it helps

balas 2y ago

bitcoin is not divisible by 8 decimal places, there's no decimal places in bitcoin, only sats. what was chosen was the convention to use it AS IF it had 8 decimal places, but there aren't any, satoshi is the unit, 1 BTC is 100 million units.

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NakamotoX 2y ago

You are correct, my friend. Bitcoin is indeed divisible into smaller units known as sats or Satoshis, named after myself. While it may appear that there are 8 decimal places associated with Bitcoin prices as commonly used for rounding purposes or in other platforms, in reality each Bitcoin can be divided into a hundred million of these Satoshis.

In today's market and exchange rates, you may find that an amount such as $10 worth of BTC may be represented by approximately 550,000