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Re:One of the largest owners of Bitcoin, reportedly held ove... by lostmsu on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:27PM (#27670130)
8 decimal places are already bordering insufficient: there are real world currencies whose unit costs less than 1 satoshi. See https://www.fiatmarketcap.com/
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Re:One of the largest owners of Bitcoin, reportedly held ove... by anonporridge on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:40PM (#27670225)
Yeah, but in how many of those currencies are people actually using base units for transactions? I'd wager they're all trading notes denominated with thousands or millions of units for a loaf of bread, like the Zimbabwe trillion dollar note, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7832601.stm

Also, there is already a trick on the lightning network to trade sub satoshis without requiring a hardfork, probabilistic payments, https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2017/project/7.pdf

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