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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin decimals. Is 1.00000000 Bitcoin the same as 1.000000000000 Bitcoin?
by
o_e_l_e_o
on 28/12/2022, 15:02:34 UTC
please please pelase go look at the transactions and coin rewards of 2009 in actual byte form data. (true data form) and realise that a coin reward was never 50.00
it was always 5,000,000,000 units. it was just the GUI front end graphic display for human eye interpreted as 50.00.. but that was not the actual hard code rule
I mean, I literally said that a satoshi has always been the base unit in the very post you quoted, but feel free to create more strawmen at which to direct your rage.

My math tells that no matter how many zeroes are after the decimal point, if they're all zero it's the same number.
Absolutely. Take a meter. It does not matter if you divide that in to 100 centimeters, or 1,000 millimeters, or 1,000,000,000 nanometers. You will never have more than 1 meter.

If it were the case that dividing bitcoin in to millisats was effectively creating more bitcoin, then why is Lightning bitcoin the same value as on-chain bitcoin? It should be that Lightning bitcoin is 1/1000th the price of on-chain bitcoin, since there are 1000 times more units in the form of millisats. This is obviously not the case.