More likely, those smaller values will be settled off chain. Lightning already supports millisatoshis.
Currently the cheapest on chain transaction costs hundreds of sats. This will increase significantly on a world Bitcoin standard. So there isn't much need for another decimal on chain. Nobody is going to pay 150 sats to settle a 0.5sat transaction.
Kosmosis
npub13e…43twj
2025-09-22 17:28:54 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…xtkr
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