Topic: When will be time to add more decimal places on the official client? (Read 1499 times)
The exchange rate is close to .001BTC per 0.01USD, is 4 US Cents considered a micropayment?
May 18, 2011, 10:21:32 AM
The client supports arbitrarily precise transactions and displays them correctly, but will show 2 decimal places regardless of whether they're needed or not. In the long run this ought to be configurable so that I can show 3 or 4 or 0 trailing zeros if I like. But even then, 2 will probably be the default setting just because it's so familiar to most of the world. (Do they use 3 digits anywhere outside Bitcoinistan and Kuwait?)
May 18, 2011, 10:08:52 AM
There are quite a few (more or less arbitrary) limitations/rules in the official client, that are not 100% necessary but there to kind of "set standards" and mindsets for the future (like these microtransaction fees)
May 18, 2011, 09:39:12 AM
I tried sending 0.005BTC and it warned me i would be forced to fork out a whole bitcent in order to have that transaction processed...i thought there were still lots of people mining choosing to not charge any transaction fees...
May 16, 2011, 08:18:13 PM
Yes, there are. If you get a payout from a mining pool that is very exact with their payout, you will also have bitcoins down to Saitoshis.
May 16, 2011, 08:13:04 PM
It doesn't show the additional zeros, only shows the additional places if there are any fractions of bitcoin cents ?
May 16, 2011, 08:07:04 PM
Think it's in 0.3.21 already. Have fun!
May 16, 2011, 08:05:34 PM
We're nearing ten bucks per BTC, i would be more comfortable if we didn't loose the ability to pay/receive cents of Dollar so soon...
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