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satoshis

Satoshis are the smallest unit of Bitcoin, named after the pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto. One bitcoin is divisible into 100,000,000 satoshis, making 1 satoshi equal to 0.00000001 BTC.

Bitcoin’s protocol uses eight decimal places, so there can never be more than 2,100,000,000,000,000 satoshis in

In practice, sats are used for microtransactions and for fee estimation, and many wallets and price trackers

Summary: Satoshis are a unit of account within Bitcoin, representing one hundred millionth of a bitcoin, with

existence
(21,000,000
BTC
times
100,000,000).
Satoshis
are
not
a
separate
currency;
they
are
the
units
used
to
measure
amounts
of
BTC.
The
term
is
often
abbreviated
as
sat
or
sats
in
informal
use.
allow
viewing
balances
and
prices
in
sats.
The
value
of
a
satoshi,
like
that
of
a
Bitcoin,
depends
on
the
market
price
of
BTC,
so
sats
serve
mainly
as
a
more
convenient
unit
for
small
amounts.
total
potential
supply
capped
by
the
Bitcoin
protocol
at
21
million
BTC,
or
2.1
quadrillion
satoshis.