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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Best data type for Bitcoin in go
by
ETFbitcoin
on 24/10/2018, 16:35:11 UTC
As FoxPup mentioned, int64 is best choice since it's enough even to specify total Bitcoin supply (in Satoshi).

Additionally, it's easier to use/implement since not all software uses same double/float64 standard and AFAIK int64 is faster.