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How Many Decimals Are in Ethereum?

Ethereum is a decentralized public blockchain network that runs smart contracts. These smart contracts are applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of fraud or third party interference.

Ethereum is the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, after Bitcoin. It is also the most active blockchain in the world.

Ethereum was first proposed in 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-Canadian programmer and co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine. He envisioned Ethereum as a “world computer” that would enable developers to build decentralized applications.

The Ethereum network went live on July 30, 2015.

The native currency of the Ethereum network is Ether (ETH). Ether is used to pay for transaction fees and gas, which is the fee charged for processing a transaction or executing a smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain.

NOTE: WARNING: Ethereum is a digital currency and its value is not expressed in decimals. Ethereum is denominated in units of ETH (ether), and the smallest fractional unit of ETH is called a Wei. The amount of Wei in an ETH can vary, so there is no set number of decimal places associated with an ETH. Therefore, it is not possible to answer the question “How many decimals are in Ethereum?”

One ether is divisible into 10^18 (one quintillion) smaller units called wei. Wei is the smallest unit of ETH and is named after Wei Dai, creator of b-money, one of the earliest proposals for a decentralized digital currency.

The total supply of ETH is capped at 18 million per year. This issuance schedule will continue until the year 2140 when the total supply of ETH will be just under 100 million.

So how many decimals are in Ethereum? One ETH is divisible into 10^18 smaller units called wei, and one wei is the smallest unit of ETH.

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