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25 sats \ 2 replies \ @allark OP 29 Jul 2022 \ parent \ on: Is a Satoshi infinitely divisible? bitcoin

Thanks

Just wasn’t clear if it was infinitely divisible 🙂

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryptocoin 29 Jul 2022

Millisats (0.001) is the result of a constant in the LN code.

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/lnwire/msat.go#L10-L12

I'm not sure if that means the LN protocol cannot be divisible further. I suspect a future version could, but the current LN protocol could not go below a millisat.

25 sats \ 0 replies \ @allark OP 29 Jul 2022

Thank you for the clarification!