Chain transactions are done in sats. There are no decimals in Bitcoin, it does not have floating point precision. The base unit is sats, there are 2.1q of them.
A UI rendering 100 sats as .00000100 Bitcoin does not change the fact Bitcoin is using sats, not decimals.
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Listen, I understand what you’re saying that COIN = 100000000 doesn’t include decimal notation, but that definition is still arbitrary and could be changed. The supply-relevant constants are all expressed in terms of COIN so when the subsidy was 50 * COIN, how COIN is defined is arbitrary where the total supply is denominated in COIN.
This is correct. Just want to give you the w when necessary.