Very interested question | Bitcointalksearch.org

Corenin

legendary

Activity: 1008

Merit: 1000

Quote from: BitchicksHusband on November 16, 2013, 02:36:28 PM

Quote from: MarketTime on November 16, 2013, 12:08:35 PM

Quote from: Blueberry408 on November 16, 2013, 08:31:52 AM

As long as everyone on the network switches to an agreed upon arbitrary data structure to work with such long numbers. If less than everyone agrees to mosey on over to the new abstraction structure, it would be complicated.

Quote from: Feneusens on November 16, 2013, 02:55:00 AM

Quote from: donbu7 on November 15, 2013, 09:58:16 AM

let´s suppose that BTC gets so popular all over the world that you can even buy everything in all over the world with BTC, the question is since BTC is a currency limited (21 million by year 2140) the BTC will have to split into .000000000001 for instance? or how is it going to work? if all the people all over the world will use BTC?

Regards

It can split as much as you want. It can even go as small as 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000001.

What do you mean? I though the creator can split whenever he wants so he don't really need everyone's permission right?

It's an open source program, so everyone on the network would need to agree at the same time.

I don't get it either, how people agree or disagree? Is it like a poll or something?

lucaspm98

sr. member

Activity: 280

Merit: 250

We can split it as much as we want, but there really isnt a reason to split it anymore yet.

pabloangello

legendary

Activity: 1344

Merit: 1001

Quote from: donbu7 on November 15, 2013, 09:58:16 AM

let´s suppose that BTC gets so popular all over the world that you can even buy everything in all over the world with BTC, the question is since BTC is a currency limited (21 million by year 2140) the BTC will have to split into .000000000001 for instance? or how is it going to work? if all the people all over the world will use BTC?

Regards

People (especially developers) are smart enough to make it work for everyone Wink

BitchicksHusband

sr. member

Activity: 378

Merit: 255

Quote from: MarketTime on November 16, 2013, 12:08:35 PM

Quote from: Blueberry408 on November 16, 2013, 08:31:52 AM

As long as everyone on the network switches to an agreed upon arbitrary data structure to work with such long numbers. If less than everyone agrees to mosey on over to the new abstraction structure, it would be complicated.

Quote from: Feneusens on November 16, 2013, 02:55:00 AM

Quote from: donbu7 on November 15, 2013, 09:58:16 AM

let´s suppose that BTC gets so popular all over the world that you can even buy everything in all over the world with BTC, the question is since BTC is a currency limited (21 million by year 2140) the BTC will have to split into .000000000001 for instance? or how is it going to work? if all the people all over the world will use BTC?

Regards

It can split as much as you want. It can even go as small as 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000001.

What do you mean? I though the creator can split whenever he wants so he don't really need everyone's permission right?

It's an open source program, so everyone on the network would need to agree at the same time.

cdtc

full member

Activity: 294

Merit: 100

Quote from: donbu7 on November 15, 2013, 09:58:16 AM

let´s suppose that BTC gets so popular all over the world that you can even buy everything in all over the world with BTC, the question is since BTC is a currency limited (21 million by year 2140) the BTC will have to split into .000000000001 for instance? or how is it going to work? if all the people all over the world will use BTC?

Regards

It can be easily extended so there is no problem there.

MarketTime

full member

Activity: 188

Merit: 100

Quote from: Blueberry408 on November 16, 2013, 08:31:52 AM

As long as everyone on the network switches to an agreed upon arbitrary data structure to work with such long numbers. If less than everyone agrees to mosey on over to the new abstraction structure, it would be complicated.

Quote from: Feneusens on November 16, 2013, 02:55:00 AM

Quote from: donbu7 on November 15, 2013, 09:58:16 AM

let´s suppose that BTC gets so popular all over the world that you can even buy everything in all over the world with BTC, the question is since BTC is a currency limited (21 million by year 2140) the BTC will have to split into .000000000001 for instance? or how is it going to work? if all the people all over the world will use BTC?

Regards

It can split as much as you want. It can even go as small as 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000001.

What do you mean? I though the creator can split whenever he wants so he don't really need everyone's permission right?

Blueberry408

member

Activity: 97

Merit: 10

One American Sumbitch Which Love 8

As long as everyone on the network switches to an agreed upon arbitrary data structure to work with such long numbers. If less than everyone agrees to mosey on over to the new abstraction structure, it would be complicated.

Quote from: Feneusens on November 16, 2013, 02:55:00 AM

Quote from: donbu7 on November 15, 2013, 09:58:16 AM

let´s suppose that BTC gets so popular all over the world that you can even buy everything in all over the world with BTC, the question is since BTC is a currency limited (21 million by year 2140) the BTC will have to split into .000000000001 for instance? or how is it going to work? if all the people all over the world will use BTC?

Regards

It can split as much as you want. It can even go as small as 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000001.

Feneusens

sr. member

Activity: 275

Merit: 250

Quote from: donbu7 on November 15, 2013, 09:58:16 AM

let´s suppose that BTC gets so popular all over the world that you can even buy everything in all over the world with BTC, the question is since BTC is a currency limited (21 million by year 2140) the BTC will have to split into .000000000001 for instance? or how is it going to work? if all the people all over the world will use BTC?

Regards

It can split as much as you want. It can even go as small as 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000001.

Rupture

full member

Activity: 182

Merit: 100

The chance that those units of bitcoin will be used in our lifetime is slim.

Peter R

legendary

Activity: 1162

Merit: 1007

Satoshi chose his numbers very carefully. A reasonable "extreme upper limit" to BTC valuation could be to say that BTC has a market cap equal to the combined M2 money supply of the USD and Euro. To make the math easy, lets call this 21 trillion USD. That means each coin is worth about a million dollars. Since each bitcoin is divisible by 100 million, 1 Satoshi is still only worth a penny. So even if bitcoin is *successful beyond our wildest dreams*, the resolution is still fine enough to facilitate the vast majority of financial transactions.

MilesJohan

sr. member

Activity: 378

Merit: 250

Quote from: donbu7 on November 15, 2013, 09:58:16 AM

let´s suppose that BTC gets so popular all over the world that you can even buy everything in all over the world with BTC, the question is since BTC is a currency limited (21 million by year 2140) the BTC will have to split into .000000000001 for instance? or how is it going to work? if all the people all over the world will use BTC?

Regards

Thats what alt-coins are for

Sindelar1938

hero member

Activity: 490

Merit: 500

Yes, the protocol can be extended beyond the eight zeroes if needed..

Johanna

sr. member

Activity: 255

Merit: 250

Quote from: donbu7 on November 15, 2013, 09:58:16 AM

let´s suppose that BTC gets so popular all over the world that you can even buy everything in all over the world with BTC, the question is since BTC is a currency limited (21 million by year 2140) the BTC will have to split into .000000000001 for instance? or how is it going to work? if all the people all over the world will use BTC?

Regards

I remember the creator mention that it can go lower then 1 statoshi...

piramida

legendary

Activity: 1176

Merit: 1010

Borsche

how did you manage to leave the newbie section without reading an FAQ on bitcoins I wonder? Go here and read all: http://bitcoin.org/en/faq

to answer your immediate question - yes, bitcoins, being code, are infinitely dividable (up to 0.00000001, called 1 satoshi, and can be easily extended if needed). but really, read faq before asking any other questions.

donbu7

member

Activity: 119

Merit: 10

let´s suppose that BTC gets so popular all over the world that you can even buy everything in all over the world with BTC, the question is since BTC is a currency limited (21 million by year 2140) the BTC will have to split into .000000000001 for instance? or how is it going to work? if all the people all over the world will use BTC?

Regards

Topic: Very interested question (Read 1070 times)