I understand that. But you are absolutely wrong that additional decimal places increase supply.
1 Bitcoin equals 1.0 Bitcoin.
Slicing the pizza in half again doesn't make the pizza any larger. A decimal precision increase is not off the table for the base layer. In fact, I would think it would naturally increase with little to no pushback if the time came.
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Bitcoin doesn't have decimals, it has sats. "Whole coins" are an abstraction, a Bitcoin is 100M base units, sats.
You can't add abstracted decimal places without a supply increase of the base unit, which would break every piece of Bitcoin software ever created... it's not going to happen.
2.1q sats -> 21q usats or whatever is a 10x supply increase. The hardest fork imaginable.
I'm sorry but this is just dead wrong and frankly a bit stupid. Don't dig this hole for yourself.
You have in fact, not increased your coke supply.
Justin, you have seen on chain transactions right? There are obviously decimals involved. Not trying to pile on here but the idea of a whole bitcoin being a pure abstraction is not correct. Because there _are_ decimals this is why dividing it by another order of magnitude would not result in supply increase.
A fraction of a sat doesn't increase how big a Bitcoin is.
If I take a penny and cut it in half it doesn't increase the amount of cents in a dollar.