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forum Re: How divisible are bitcoins and other market/economic questions Forum Posts Bitcoin Forum 42 2010-02-06 23:25:53 UTC https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=44.msg267#msg267

Re: How divisible are bitcoins and other market/economic questions


Re: How divisible are bitcoins and other market/economic questions
February 06, 2010, 11:25:53 PM

Eventually at most only 21 million coins for 6.8 billion people in the world if it really gets huge.

But don't worry, there are another 6 decimal places that aren't shown, for a total of 8 decimal places internally.  It shows 1.00 but internally it's 1.00000000.  If there's massive deflation in the future, the software could show more decimal places.

If it gets tiresome working with small numbers, we could change where the display shows the decimal point.  Same amount of money, just different convention for where the ","'s and "."'s go.  e.g. moving the decimal place 3 places would mean if you had 1.00000 before, now it shows it as 1,000.00.