{"id":93382,"date":"2019-07-09T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T01:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=93382"},"modified":"2019-09-07T13:03:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T20:03:17","slug":"how-can-bitcoin-be-divided-into-small-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-can-bitcoin-be-divided-into-small-units","title":{"rendered":"How can Bitcoin be divided into small units?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As with other recent articles, this one was originally published as an answer to a member of Quora, a Q&amp;A site in which I am a cryptocurrency columnist. And just like the previous one in this Lifeboat series (also posted today), this is a Q&amp;A exchange with a newbie\u2014a bitcoin beginner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question is simply: \u201c<em>How can Bitcoin be divided into units smaller than one?<\/em>\u201d While the answer may seem obvious to someone versed in math, statistics or economics, I see this question a lot\u2014or something very similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can explain by asking a nearly identical question; one that the enquirer can probably answer easily. The goal is to provide the tools to answer the question\u2014and in a manner that helps the reader recall and make use of the answer in the future. This is how I approached an answer\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Puzzle me this:<\/strong> Can you divide 100 into smaller pieces? Of course you can! You just divvy it up. After all, it\u2019s just a number.<\/p><div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-can-bitcoin-be-divided-into-small-units\">Continue reading \u201cHow can Bitcoin be divided into small units?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with other recent articles, this one was originally published as an answer to a member of Quora, a Q&amp;A site in which I am a cryptocurrency columnist. And just like the previous one in this Lifeboat series (also posted today), this is a Q&amp;A exchange with a newbie\u2014a bitcoin beginner. The question is simply: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,39],"tags":[2161,3393,3391,3390,2923,3396],"class_list":["post-93382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-economics","tag-bitcoin","tag-divide-bitcoin","tag-divisibility","tag-divisible","tag-satoshi","tag-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93388,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93382\/revisions\/93388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}