The likely explanations for this are a mix of understandable and befuddling.
When it comes to decimal places, cryptocurrencies are treading into bizarre territory that other markets have never dared – or bothered, really – to go before.
Shiba Inu cost just US$0.00004893 or so each on Friday afternoon, while Dogecoin fetched less than 1 cent early this year. A Bitcoin can be sliced into a satoshi, which is this much of the coin: 0.00000001. Then there’s the weirdest of all: the wei. That’s one quintillionth of an Ether, or 0.000000000000000001.
