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Re:Building Payments for an Insurance Startup on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @03:17PM (#20577286)
Also in Fintech. In some cases it is actually necessary to have more than 2 decimal places.

For example, interest accrued daily, but only ‘compounded’ monthly. In those cases, it is necessary to maintain far more than the 2 decimal places for the daily accruals.

The best type to use here would be BigDecimal or equivalent. These ultimately serialise to infinite length strings.

Re:Bitfinex fails to perform promised audits on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:29PM (#16253638)
At the moment you can only trade (place bids/asks) on Luno with the following currency pairs: BTC/IDR, BTC/MYR, BTC/NGN, BTC/ZAR (largest volume) and ETH/BTC.

I think they started out as a South African only exchange a few years back.