Ask HN: Can round up error occur in Bitcoin?

3 points by akasakahakada 2y ago ↗ HN

Like a bunch of 0.00000003 BTC add up to a wrong amount as the price inflate and people split it into a smaller value when spending them?

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jepler 2y ago ↗

As far as I understand it, the amount of a bitcoin transaction is in uint64_t satoshis. In a correct implementation, all arithmetic performed on integers is exact, and there's no possibility for the number of satoshis in any transaction to ever exceed the maximum uint64_t.