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by billman 2178 days ago
Just curious, how would you manage bitcoin fractional shares.
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deevolution 2178 days ago
Bitcoins are represented as integers. A whole Bitcoin is 100MM satoshis.

Typedef int64_t CAmount;

Static const CAmount COIN = 100000000;

Static const CAmount MAX_MONEY = 21000000 * COIN;

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/master/src/amount.h

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gruez 2178 days ago
Why would you need fractional bitcoin shares? The smallest unit of bitcoin isn't 1 bitcoin (like with stocks), it's 1 satoshi or 0.00000001 bitcoin.
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granitepail 2178 days ago
Arbitrary precision arithmetic.
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