Peter Todd on Nostr: Sats don't just magically decay. If you have a seed phrase that secures 100 sats, the ...
Sats don't just magically decay. If you have a seed phrase that secures 100 sats, the chance of you losing that seed phrase is no different than a seed phrase securing 1,000,000sats _if_ the price is different enough that both seed phrases represent the same value to you.
...and lightning already supports milisats. So precision isn't a big deal.
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