I don’t wanna argue with you and I probably won’t keep digging into the GitHub further but the value of a transaction in bitcoin is denominated in satoshis. Which is an integer value.
https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/transaction/utxo/
Here the amount field for spending a utxo is denominated in satoshis.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/consensus/amount.h
Also see this post from John Carvallo where he advocates renaming satoshis to bitcoin because of the point I’ve been making here.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/the-unit-denomination-of-bitcoin-does-not-need-to-change
What say you?
lightningspore / LightningSpore
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2025-03-24 21:49:33
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