<p>You can't go into an "infinite" amount of decimal places. The smallest unit of Bitcoin is the <em>satoshi</em>, which is 0.00000001 bitcoin.</p>

<p>There will be a total of 2100000000000000 satoshi.</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2017-08-29T00:54:51.683Z
2017-08-29T01:02:36.270Z
2017-08-29T01:02:36.270Z
Greg Hewgill
<p>Fractions or decimals of the whole don't make more of the whole.  21x10^6 is a finite number but it can be divided infinitely. Division doesn't increase the finite number, it just increases the number of "pieces" of the original number. Think of $1. You can produce four quarters from $1 which is more pieces but still only a total of $1.</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2017-08-31T01:44:25.233Z
2017-08-31T01:44:25.233Z
Dr.Plastics
<p>I don't get how there's a limited supply of 21 million bitcoin if we can go into the infinite amount of decimal places. </p>

<p>So for example, you can't go less then 1 cent if we take USD. in BTC, you can have 0.00000001 or however many zeros after the point, not sure but I would assume it's alot. So isn't there alot more than 21 million bitcoins, if we take in decimals into account?</p>

<money-supply>
Is there really a limited supply of bitcoin?
foreyez
# Is there really a limited supply of bitcoin?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-08-28)

I don't get how there's a limited supply of 21 million bitcoin if we can go into the infinite amount of decimal places.

So for example, you can't go less then 1 cent if we take USD. in BTC, you can have 0.00000001 or however many zeros after the point, not sure but I would assume it's alot. So isn't there alot more than 21 million bitcoins, if we take in decimals into account?

**Tags:** money-supply


---

## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-08-29. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

You can't go into an "infinite" amount of decimal places. The smallest unit of Bitcoin is the *satoshi*, which is 0.00000001 bitcoin.

There will be a total of 2100000000000000 satoshi.


---

### Answer by username_2 on 2017-08-31. Score: 0

Fractions or decimals of the whole don't make more of the whole. 21x10^6 is a finite number but it can be divided infinitely. Division doesn't increase the finite number, it just increases the number of "pieces" of the original number. Think of $1. You can produce four quarters from $1 which is more pieces but still only a total of $1.


---

