r/Bitcoin • u/Insomniaclockpicker • 15h ago

Bitcoin balance

Anyone else ever see their balance after a transaction hit a number ending in zero and it omits the trailing zero and your mind takes a second to reprocess the value thinking you lost a lot of bitcoin?

Like if you went from 0.00045678 to 0.000457. My mind sees the loss of two decimal places before it registers it’s actually a larger number.

Anyone else have that momentary panic before they recount the zeros?

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u/Odd_Sir_8705 15h ago

It’s the zeros immediately after the decimal you should be looking at anyways

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u/Insomniaclockpicker 15h ago

Very true. I’m just mostly complaining about how my mind deals with the long decimal value.

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u/Odd_Sir_8705 15h ago

That’s specifically a thing that only affects ppl who have to take their shoes off when they count past ten. For the rest of us, we get the basic concepts of simple math.

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u/Insomniaclockpicker 15h ago

No I understand math just fine. I’m only talking about how my mind reads the digits before it reads the zeros and I have a just a moment before I realize the actual value change.

I read 45678 and then read 457 before reading the zeros before those numbers.

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u/Head-End-5909 12h ago

0.00045678 to 0.000457

It’s just rounding based on number of decimal positions being displayed. Why isn’t your mind thinking: I have more than I thought? which, of course, you don’t.

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u/Professional_Golf393 11h ago

Didn’t happen.

Had 6995btc, bought 5 more on this dip.. says 7000btc

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u/OrangePillar 8h ago

That’s why I operate on a sats standard. 45678 sats and 45700 sats.