DocumentingBTC on Nostr: Satoshi Nakamoto posted this 13 years ago today: "Eventually at most only 21 million ...
Satoshi Nakamoto posted this 13 years ago today:
"Eventually at most only 21 million coins for 6.8 billion people in the world if it really gets huge. But don't worry, there are (...) 8 decimal places internally."
∞ / 2.1 quadrillion
And on Lightning there are even 3 more decimal places, with the unit called "Millisat" facilitating an exchange rate of 1 billion USD per 1 bitcoin for msat/cent parity.
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2023-02-06 20:37:55Event JSON
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