user30472: If not, what are the prevailing critiques and concerns of that design choice?

user24925: Like most of these internal choices in the Bitcoin system, it's not really explained by the author and can't be easily changed even if anybody had a strong objection to it. Internally all values are 64 bit integers, and just displayed to the user as value / 1e8. 

The original wxBitcoin releases displayed two decimal places of precision. 

30472: <p>If not, what are the prevailing critiques and concerns of that design choice?</p>
 24925: <p>Like most of these internal choices in the Bitcoin system, it's not really explained by the author and can't be easily changed even if anybody had a strong objection to it. Internally all values are 64 bit integers, and just displayed to the user as <code>value / 1e8</code>. </p>

<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2log8.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2log8.png" alt="bitcoin 0.1"></a></p>

<p>The original wxBitcoin releases displayed two decimal places of precision. </p>
