As far as Bitcoin's code is concerned, there are no decimals. Sats are the base unit on the blockchain.
The concept that 100,000,000 sats = 1 Bitcoin is a social agreement external to the actual way Bitcoin works.
That said, it is such a longstanding social agreement that it would absolutely cause a lot of confusion and controversy to try and change it now.
Keep the 1 Bitcoin = 100,000,000 sats for the sake of consistency. To change it at this point would make a whole lot of folks scream "I thought Bitcoin didn't have inflation!" because no one actually knows how division works...
Dikaios1517
npub1ku…v3lhe
2025-05-17 17:05:38
in reply to nevent1q…sgk2
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2025-05-17 17:05:38Event JSON
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