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Bitcoins are divisible down to 1/10,000,000 BTC. That's actually the fundamental unit of a transaction. The network doesn't deal in whole bitcoins, each transaction is recorded as some number of these little tiny pieces. (They have been nicknamed "satoshis" after the creator.) So technically it won't make any difference to the network.

Small correction, they're divisible down to 1/100,000,000 BTC.

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