I made a post about how you can buy fractions of BTC and other cryptos. This lead me to learning about the smallest units of other cryptos and how some have names and some don't.
The smallest of all Ethereum units is known as the WEI, which comes to 0.000000000000000001 (or 10-18) Ether. The Wei, for example, is named after a cypher punk computer engineer who was one of the most important players behind the rise of cryptocurrencies. He is known for developing the Crypto++ cryptographic library, creating a bi money crypto currency system, and being among those who proposed the VMAC message authentication algorithm.
Tell us about the smallest unit of your favorite crypto and Ill edit them in.
- BTC has "satoshi " = .00000001 BTC or 1e-8 (1 msat or millisatoshi, is 1/1000 Satoshi on the Lightning network)
- Eth has "wei" = 0.000000000000000001 ETH or 1e-18
- Monero has "piconero" = 0.000000000001 XMR or 1e-12
- Polka Dot has "planck" = 0.0000000001 DOT or 1e-10 (a planck is the reference to the smallest physical distance, named after Max Planck the physicist )
- Cardano has a "lovelace" = 0.000001 ADA or 1e-6 ( Ada Lovelace was a brilliant mathematician, one of the first computer programmers ever.)
- Icon has a "gloop" = 0.0000000001 ICX or 1e-10
- IOTA has an "iota" = 0.000001 IOTA (when you buy it, 1 miota = 1 mega iota, or 1 million iota)
- Doge has a "shibetoshi" = 0.00000001 DOGE or 1e-8
- Nano has a "raw" = 0.000000000000000000000000000001 or 1e-30
- Algo has a "microalgo" = 0.000001 Algo or 1e-6
- Binance Coin has a "jager" = 0.00000001 BNB or 1e-8
- Decred has a "atom" = 0.00000001 DCR or 1e-8
- XRP has a "drop" = 0.000001 XRP or 1e-6
- Stellar has a "stroop" = 0.00001 XLM or 1e-5 (named after dutch stroop waffles)
- Tron has a "sun" = 0.000001 TRX or 1e-6
- Comos has a "uAtom" or micro-atom = 0.000001 ATOM or 1e-6
- Tezos has a "mutez" = 0.000001 XTZ or 1e-6
- Litecoin has a "litoshi" = 0.00000001 LTC or 1e-8
- Quantum Resistant ledger has a "shor" = 0.000000001 Quanta or 1e-9
- Ark has an "arktoshi" = 0.00000001 ARK or 1e-8
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