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Re:The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November by sidko on Saturday October 07, 2017 @10:04AM (#15423810)
Bitcoin is NOT infinitely divisible. Each Bitcoin is divisible into 10^8. There were reasons to choose this number and isn't arbitrary [1].

[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/31933/why-is-bit...

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Re:The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November by wwwtyro on Saturday October 07, 2017 @10:36AM (#15423925)
It is arbitrarily divisible. Fitting inside 64 bits is convenient, but hardly an insurmountable engineering challenge. There's libraries that handle this sort of thing with ease.
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