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		xvilka on Sept 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitfinex just spent $23.7M in fees to make a singl... This is why in "classic" fintech they used so-called "decimal" fixed-point numbers for decades. To not use COBOL as an example let's check something more modern, e.g. Rust[1]. [1] https://github.com/paupino/rust-decimal

MichaelBurge on Sept 28, 2021 [–]

Ethereum uses integers to store transaction amounts internally. Integers are fixed-point already, so that library is completely irrelevant.

xvilka on Sept 28, 2021 | [–]

I didn't mean Ethereum itself, apparently the bug is in whatever code written at the higher level, inside the exchange or whatever service they use.

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