<p>Like most of these internal choices in the Bitcoin system, it's not really explained by the author and can't be easily changed even if anybody had a strong objection to it. Internally all values are 64 bit integers, and just displayed to the user as <code>value / 1e8</code>. </p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/2log8.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/2log8.png" alt="bitcoin 0.1"></a></p>

<p>The original wxBitcoin releases displayed two decimal places of precision. </p>

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Claris
<p>If not, what are the prevailing critiques and concerns of that design choice?</p>

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Was there ever reasoning presented for the size of a satoshi (i.e., the minimum amount of bitcoin that can be transacted)?
davidhwang
# Was there ever reasoning presented for the size of a satoshi (i.e., the minimum amount of bitcoin that can be transacted)?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-11-25)

If not, what are the prevailing critiques and concerns of that design choice?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2015-11-25. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

Like most of these internal choices in the Bitcoin system, it's not really explained by the author and can't be easily changed even if anybody had a strong objection to it. Internally all values are 64 bit integers, and just displayed to the user as `value / 1e8`.

[![bitcoin 0.1](https://i.sstatic.net/2log8.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/2log8.png)

The original wxBitcoin releases displayed two decimal places of precision.


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