Topic: Poll regarding rounding of Bitcoin amounts in clients - page 2. (Read 3684 times)

What's an "unformatted float"? So you like the right side and dislike the left side?

And - more to this topic - you dislike 1.00001 -> 1.0000 (because of 4 digits of precision)?


Sure, it will stay optional (8 digits of precision means no rounding at all).

Maybe it's just me but I don't like rounding. What I also don't like is unformatted floats.

IMHO:
1.00000000 -> 1.00
1.00001000 -> 1.00001

But then again I might be weird.

Edit: If it's an optional feature then I'm all for it.

Ah, I forgot to mention. The "moving of the comma" topic is not the main topic of this poll.

Are groups of 1000 (as in 1 000 000) also used after the comma? I thought only before.

I'd recommend displaying mBTC or even µBTC by default. Additionally group thousands/millions like this: 1.00000000 BTC = 1 000 000.00 µBTC

The purpose of my post is getting opinions about rounding of Bitcoin amounts.

Most clients already cut of insignificant zeros at the end. So for example, 1.22000000 gets 1.22. Still, especially if you use currency conversion frequently, you'll have a lot of crude amounts (like 0.31745883 for a burger) in your wallet. In my opinion, this makes it hard to read, especially for non-technical people.

Bitcoin Wallet currently implements a labs feature that allows you to round to either 4, 6 or 8 digits after the comma (see Preferences -> Labs -> Precision of Bitcoin values). Note that when entering amounts yourself (such as when sending a payment) you still can use any precision you like. Also, the setting of course doesn't affect any internal calculations, so there is no "adding up of rounding errors" and stuff like that.

My questions go to all of you, not only Bitcoin Wallet users:

Would you use such a feature in your client?
Do you think it makes sense, also for non-technical people?
Do you find 0.1255 easier to read than 0.125501?
Should we kind of standardize the options (4, 6 and 8 digits) for all clients?
I deliberately left the option of 2 digits out, because we're way past the "0.01 is equivalent to a penny/cent" era. Do you miss it still?
Which option should be default?