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Re:The programming error that cost Mt. Gox 2609 Bitcoins by wyager on Monday March 03, 2014 @10:10AM (#7334063)
The idea would have been to allow BTC software to be written in languages that only have float support (like JS).

The Bitcoin code itself actually frequently uses decimal64 as well as uint64_t.

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